On: Why Johnny can't code

[yummyfajitas]

I hit "view source" on google. Here is some of the javascript:

    ar _IG_MD = _IG_MD_Generate({ct:0,t:[{i:0,n:"Home"},{i:1,n:"arxiv.org"}],dt:[0,1],m:[{i:2,mt:25,u:"http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss",ti:"Quotes of the Day",sn:"A3",t:0,dd:["ed","del","ming","shg","rg","ag"]},{i:139,mt:25,u:"http://lwn.net/headlines/newrss",ti:"LWN.net",sn:"Ne",t:0,dd:["ed","del","ming","shg","rg","ag"]},{i:137,mt:25,u:"http://blog.jgc.org/feeds/posts/default",ti:"",sn:"",t:0,dd:["ed", [...Lots more snipped...]

This will help Johnny learn to code how?

[edw519 → yummyfajitas]

Straw man. 1 counterexample != refutation

"View Source" doesn't help on every web page.

But it does expose more examples of code than ever before. That's all.

[_ivvf → yummyfajitas]

I don't think you're using the word strawman correctly. I believe it means that you create an easily refutable argument and pretend your opponent used it when he really didn't. You then knock the argument down and proclaim victory.

Also, the example given above is an excellent example of the fact that Javascript has become the assembly of the web and that there are a large number of tools that are going to spit out code like that.