From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jun 26 11:51:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA06640 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:51:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [205.153.153.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06585 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:50:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fewtch@serv.net) Received: from serv.net (dialup508.serv.net [207.207.70.73]) by mx.serv.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26875; Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199806261550.IAA09816@pau-amma.whistle.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 11:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: fewtch@serv.net From: Tim Gerchmez To: David Wolfskill Subject: Re: How important is "the OS?" Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 26-Jun-98 David Wolfskill wrote: > > > What, pray tell, is wrong with using a text editor to write programs? > > Please recall that the final letter of "HTML" stands for "Language". I agree with you 99% here David... I *almost* always do my web pages entirely by hand. However, it DOES make it difficult to create very complex pages with complicated layouts, especially with a lot of frames, forms and tables. A wysiwyg editor can help under those circumstances, and you can always edit the final output by hand. Generally if I'm designing a very complex web page/series of pages (which is almost never, since I hate complex web pages :-) I'll resort to some kind of web designer program to assist in the initial stages. > Then again, I dislike driving an automobile with an automatic > transmission.... :-} Actually, here I have to disagree... automatic transmissions have MAJOR advantages over manual, afaic. Your car is far better than you at determining what gear it needs to be in, IMO, and you're likely to actually save gas with an automatic transmission, as well as put less wear and tear on the engine. I like being in control of things as much as you do, but this is one area where I prefer to let modern technology take care of itself. > Each to his or her own, though, True, true... ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Tim Gerchmez Date: 26-Jun-98 Time: 11:42:20 This message was sent by XFMail ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message