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Bad parallel. Coding up a CSS/HTML web page full of embedded PHP and Javascript and trying to get it pixel-perfect is worlds away from writing an internally con
by iron_ball 18y ago
Bad parallel. Coding up a CSS/HTML web page full of embedded PHP and Javascript and trying to get it pixel-perfect is worlds away from writing an internally consistent program for a single run target using a single sane language and APIs. You can't say "it's all music."
- yummyfajitas 18y agoOn the contrary, I'm saying that music "isn't all music" either. Whatever your craft, before you reach beauty, you need to deal with technical details.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoIn classical approaches to beauty, the thinking was that Beauty was the result of strict adherence to rules. From wikipedia on aesthetics: <quote> Greek philosophers initially felt that aesthetically appealing objects were beautiful in and of themselves. Plato felt that beautiful objects incorporated proportion, harmony, and unity among their parts. Similarly, in the Metaphysics, Aristotle found that the universal elements of beauty were order, symmetry, and definiteness. </quote> but yea. a classical foundation in a trade and rigorous pursuit of <latin>ars</latin> enables the craftsmen to do excellent things, or failing that, at least be competent in routine.