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On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 12:27 -0500, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > > > By the end of this century, I will be amazed if you will still be able to > > > call yourself a 'software engineer/progammer' without a legally mandated > > > certification, license and professional standards. > > Uh, riiiight. And, in the future, if I attempt to create an > Excel macro, my spread sheet will notifiy the authorities. Having had the unfortunate experience of dealing with some truly medieval spreadsheet hackery, I can't say I'm not looking forward to such a day <duck/>. Seriously, I agree with Franz, and I don't see where he could be seen to have insulted anyone particular. Remember that anyone can fetch some paracetamol/acitominophen for their friend with a headache, or apply a bandage to the calf of a comrade who suffered a strain on a soccer pitch, but that does not give them the right to call themselves a "doctor" in any official capacity. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html
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