>>I think this summarizes much of the talk on this subject we saw here during the last couple of months. It also shows that the programming is still an art.
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>Funny, you say this.... when I was a student I had a teatcher who said that he wanted to make database design a common job which everyone could learn. But when I went deeper into the database theory and thechnology I learned that much of this will stay more than art than a "to learn technology".

I've always been amazed with people who wanted to learn maths or programming the same way they learned geography or history. It's not a cookbook, full of ready recipies - even when you know them all, you'll still have to invent some of your own, do some research, make some mistakes, try this and that, and build up the base of your intuition. For all those who think there's a "technology to learn" in programming - there is some, but if you rely on the ready recipies, you're learning how to be obsolete soon. There's nothing completely finished here, anything can use extra brain efforts.

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