[openbeos] OT Re: Re: "Send a brief introduction to the Haiku mailing list"
- From: Charlie Clark <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:46:11 +0100
Am 23.02.2007 um 07:55 schrieb Mat Hounsell:
Every developer needs to know XHTML.
CGI is incrediblely simple, so is AJAX. And you should be able to
learn both in a day each. (Though the devil is always in the detail.)
Javascript and DOM tie those three togethor.
The web world is *simplistic* and using it as a basis for learning
programming is not only short-sighted but dangerous. An awful lot of
stuff (including my own stuff) written for the web is junk that would
not be accepted in any other environment. The current trend to making
websites look and feel like normal applications is good for usability
(from a web developer perspective) but is full of security risks and
poor implementations and methodologies which at best clutter and
confuse: application logic in the frontend, procedural code instead
of declarative, etc.
Anyone wishing to learn programming will have to learn C++ and the
BeAPI is one of the best ones out there. As noted there are
applications that will allow people to click interfaces together
which they can then work with. In order to program properly you have
to be able to understand the fundamental concepts. And we know that
it works: there are quite a few developers who learned to program on
BeOS with the BeAPI.
Charlie
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