Not so. You asked if Vaugn's work might be considered lacking. I provided two criteria on which some people might consider it to be lacking. I did not suggest all music is played to a standard....
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Not so. You asked if Vaugn's work might be considered lacking. I provided two criteria on which some people might consider it to be lacking. I did not suggest all music is played to a standard....
If there is no way of identifying someone with a natural talent for something, how can a natural talent for that something be said to exist?
I agree with you that a gift in anything comes down...
By some measures, yes. Consistency and repeatability would be examples.
Firstly, I have not suggested anything is "merely technical". There are many ways of looking at anything, not all of...
Indeed. The problem is a lot of people describe an activity as being an art or craft in order to excuse a lack of technical rigour.
They lose the fact that great artists or craftsmen are also...
Get that idea out of your head, otherwise you will only ever be - at best - a mediocre programmer.
I realise that programming is often practiced as if it is an art or craft, but that sort of...
Sure. But the discussion here has yet to go down such lines.
Expressing distaste for some misuse of an expression, in a context where it has yet to be misused, is more a sign of...
"Self taught" is a common abbreviated description of someone who has undergone self-directed learning, Soma.
Everyone who is proficient in a programming language is self-taught to some degree. A formal course, or textbook, can only provide provide a starting point. It takes continual effort to learn...