Well, to beat a dead horse a little... my statement was catagorical, and "smoke alarms are always good to have in your home" is also catagorical. :) (though really, "home" is a qualifier, as was the exception for programming communities I gave, so maybe neither are really catagorical enough to make them probably untrue on that basis.)

I am not sure about your "parallel" idea. With the straight HTML sollution it could be, but also you could just use an SSI for the common chunk, making some sort of intersection.

I think restating the classic problem in the terms of HTML doesn't work, because HTML isn't a programming language, and non-programmers like/need to change the way it looks. That's the point I was trying to make. It is not a point I would be making in a typical programming case; in a typical case, I think that it is okay to expect people to put the time in to understand the tools they are going to use, and that expectation totally changes the values of the tradeoffs. Then I would be looking for the simplest sollution. In web design, though, I am looking for the simplest sollution for two groups of people, and I think the choice ends up being between mediocrity for all (HTML with SSI, or CGI.pm) or seperate quality sollutions for both groups (simple templates).

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 6: Code Critique? by Aighearach
in thread Code Critique? by rostiguy

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