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Subject:RE: I'm taking my marbles and going home... From:"Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:40:46 -0700
Tuples -at- aol -dot- com wrote:
First of all, separate the two. Programing is much different than writing.
Writing Web content does NOT require programming skills.
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Not really. Programming is writing for a different audience in a different language. Computers understand a bunch of different languages, but the computer is the audience. It is as difficult to program as it is to communicate clearly with a 5-year old child. Or something like that... ;)
YMMV
John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.
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