On 09:42:17 Feb 28, Steve Shockley wrote:

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> Recipes don't teach you how to cook.
>

I can second this because I have been cooking for more than three years
now.

And God alone knows how hard it has been.

I never consult any book or even the Internet.

I simply ask ladies and that too the ones whose food I have tasted.

In spite of my making mistakes and experimentation I still cannot be
sure how my dish will end up tasting.

It is the same with programming or anything with computers.

No matter what you read, until you try it out for yourself and get experience
it is useless.

-Girish

-- 
"unix soi qui mal y pense"

UNIX to him who evil thinks