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Jera Wolfe: Kale: I can write HTML, but put variabes inside <%= tags %>
Kale: So when you log in, it renders HTML elements to you
Kale: Now, you can also render tables
Kale: inside a loop
Kale: And because what you get is a web page, you can view it from ANY modern web browser
Kale: ANY computer
Kale: So you can immediately deploy point of sale websites
Kale: You an access y our buiness rules from anywhere
Jera Wolfe: ...
Jera Wolfe: That's so deceptive.
Kale: How so?
Jera Wolfe: Jera Wolfe: The 'power' or 'preferability' of coding/scripting languages.
Jera Wolfe: I mean, to people who understand enough to appreciate manipluating and dealing with data.
Jera Wolfe: It's like SOOOO COOOL.
Jera Wolfe: But, you explain that to a normal person, and they look at you like, "So what?"
Jera Wolfe: It lets me see stuff on a webpage? What's the big deal about that.
Jera Wolfe: It's like, the spy game.
Jera Wolfe: But without a cold war.
Jera Wolfe: All the great things going on, are shared and known in a small subset or subgroup of specialists, and the rest of the world, which is affected by these events, is largely completely unaware of them.
Jera Wolfe: Coding vs. James Bond.
Kale: heh
Kale: So when you log in, it renders HTML elements to you
Kale: Now, you can also render tables
Kale: inside a loop
Kale: And because what you get is a web page, you can view it from ANY modern web browser
Kale: ANY computer
Kale: So you can immediately deploy point of sale websites
Kale: You an access y our buiness rules from anywhere
Jera Wolfe: ...
Jera Wolfe: That's so deceptive.
Kale: How so?
Jera Wolfe: Jera Wolfe: The 'power' or 'preferability' of coding/scripting languages.
Jera Wolfe: I mean, to people who understand enough to appreciate manipluating and dealing with data.
Jera Wolfe: It's like SOOOO COOOL.
Jera Wolfe: But, you explain that to a normal person, and they look at you like, "So what?"
Jera Wolfe: It lets me see stuff on a webpage? What's the big deal about that.
Jera Wolfe: It's like, the spy game.
Jera Wolfe: But without a cold war.
Jera Wolfe: All the great things going on, are shared and known in a small subset or subgroup of specialists, and the rest of the world, which is affected by these events, is largely completely unaware of them.
Jera Wolfe: Coding vs. James Bond.
Kale: heh