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In a profession, you do the work applying the knowledge you obtain doing the work. If you learned application from a book even better. That means others will understand what you are doing if they read. If they practice, you can do it together. If neither, you are in different professions. len -----Original Message----- From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@c...] On Behalf Of John Cowan Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 6:03 PM To: Cox, Bruce Cc: Michael Kay; xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Should XML Professionals Be Programmers? Cox, Bruce scripsit: > In graduate school (1980) we agreed that a professional is someone who > will do the right thing based on extensive knowledge of the domain, > whether or not the customer knows to ask for it. Today, I'd say > it this way: A professional is someone trusted to do the right thing > based on extensive knowledge of the domain, whether or not the customer > knows enough to ask for it. I think it's also the case that in a profession you apply knowledge you got from a book (basically). In a job, being ditch-digging or being President of the United States, you apply whatever you already have to doing what needs to be done. -- John Cowan cowan@c... http://ccil.org/~cowan If he has seen farther than others, it is because he is standing on a stack of dwarves. --Mike Champion, describing Tim Berners-Lee (adapted) _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php
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