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"David Cressey" <dcressey@verizon.net> wrote in message 
news:51G1h.5560$ee4.5310@trndny06...
> I honestly think that this phenomenon, and others like it, keep occuring
> because most people learn programming before they learn data management.
> Perhaps in some future generation, people will learn the fundamentals of
> data before they learn how to write code.

I don't see that happening in my lifetime.  I expect to be bogged down in 
what I call "artisan code" for the rest of my life.  (Artisan code is code 
written by happy energetic amateurs operating on intuition and folklore.)

Roy