On Tuesday 27 May 2008 23:09:52 Craig Findlay wrote:
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> Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > If you can't program, then please -- don't program.
>
> Hmmm, not sure if I agree with that, I no one ever tried to do things
> that they can't do, the world would be a sorry place.

I think the advice should have been not to program *professionally* until one 
knows what he or she is doing.  Nobody is born a programmer.