Is it enough? I agree we should not bicker and should concentrate on maintaining open code. However, the useless certification of M$ has become a standard by which all are judged. I know all to many nulls that have managed to pass the certifications. This has gotten them jobs in positions where they have no business. Because you have taken a test and passed means nothing. I too took a test and passed it. I knew nothing about NT Server 4.0, but knew enough about Windoze 95 and networking in general to pass. Yet I have never looked at a system running NT! Does that qualify me on the product? I think these certifications are bogus and a waste of money time and effort. Let us concentrate on what is important, not on how to pass a test. Many a Sys Admin could not pass a test but can run a system, *their* system faultlessly, and at times better than any book schooled and certified technodweeb.
To say in a blanket statement that all code is expression of some sort is correct and yet incorrct. Yes the action the code is designed to make/take (all depends on your view point) can indeed prove to be a form of expression, but do we consider calculators and the code that causes them to calculate human expression? Or is it the "calculated" input on the part of the user that brings about the desired output the actual expression as opposed to the code that allowed it all to happen? This is what it is all about isn't it? Human expression? Code can be writen in such a way as to be able to be considered expression, especially if it renders a consistent desired output. However, the question still remains, can plain simple code of any type be considered expression? I feel it is not, unless it is writen in such a manner as to express the inner soul of the programmer.
And we have now gotten to the philosophical question, is all we think say and do an expression and if so is my driving down a residential street at 100 MPH a form of expression? and if so is the ticket I receive a form of impingement on the right to free expression? Where is the line drawn and does there need to be a line drawn to delineate? Ah it's too late to think beyond terms of code. I need some coffee or some sleep I'll leave it to you to decide.
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Is it enough? I agree we should not bicker and should concentrate on maintaining open code. However, the useless certification of M$ has become a standard by which all are judged. I know all to many nulls that have managed to pass the certifications. This has gotten them jobs in positions where they have no business. Because you have taken a test and passed means nothing. I too took a test and passed it. I knew nothing about NT Server 4.0, but knew enough about Windoze 95 and networking in general to pass. Yet I have never looked at a system running NT! Does that qualify me on the product? I think these certifications are bogus and a waste of money time and effort. Let us concentrate on what is important, not on how to pass a test. Many a Sys Admin could not pass a test but can run a system, *their* system faultlessly, and at times better than any book schooled and certified technodweeb.
To say in a blanket statement that all code is expression of some sort is correct and yet incorrct. Yes the action the code is designed to make/take (all depends on your view point) can indeed prove to be a form of expression, but do we consider calculators and the code that causes them to calculate human expression? Or is it the "calculated" input on the part of the user that brings about the desired output the actual expression as opposed to the code that allowed it all to happen? This is what it is all about isn't it? Human expression? Code can be writen in such a way as to be able to be considered expression, especially if it renders a consistent desired output. However, the question still remains, can plain simple code of any type be considered expression? I feel it is not, unless it is writen in such a manner as to express the inner soul of the programmer.
And we have now gotten to the philosophical question, is all we think say and do an expression and if so is my driving down a residential street at 100 MPH a form of expression? and if so is the ticket I receive a form of impingement on the right to free expression? Where is the line drawn and does there need to be a line drawn to delineate? Ah it's too late to think beyond terms of code. I need some coffee or some sleep I'll leave it to you to decide.