Another Manifesto

I’ll blog about this one at some point, but the one I wanted to mention here is this one, which is a good read for people who want to build better tools to let normal people make computers “do stuff”.

A notable quote:


For example, no one still uses textual markup for word processing (except, notably, Computer Scientists with TeX).

3 Comments »

 
  1. Stan says:

    And physicists and mathematicians!

  2. adam says:

    hehe and wiki markup?

  3. Andrew Gilmartin says:

    And what about all those wikis and blogs? They might not be traditional word processing but they sure convey information from one person to another — the reason for word processing (such a silly term).

 

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