Messages in this thread | | | Subject | [OT]: Brooks and the kernel wiki | From | Gary Lawrence Murphy <> | Date | 03 Oct 2000 00:05:21 -0400 |
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Alexander also makes a simple wrong assumption in his comparison of software and hypertext documents: Software must be logically consistent and its writers highly inter-co-ordinated or it simply won't work; a rough and non-linear post-modern web-accessible document has no such internal communication requirement. When you write a screenplay like this, you get 3 academy award nominations; when you write software like this, you get a cubicle in Redmond.
Oh, yes, I totally agree that it would be very nice to have tight coherence throughout the document, but it is not strictly required.
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