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John Cowan wrote:
> Tim Bray scripsit:
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>>I think it would be Good if life were that simple, but whereas the
>>abstraction of "the document" vs "what the document's about" works
>>beautifully, I'm told, in the discipline of architecture, I just don't
>>have good experiences trying to make things in other application spaces
>>line up so neatly.
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> Can you provide some examples?
The many millions of web pages that aren't about anything in particular
(they contain poems, or abstract art, or whatever). The (physical)
robots and coke-machines and so on that can be controlled via HTTP.
I'm not claiming for a moment that this isn't a useful relationship;
just that it's not remotely universal.
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Cheers, Tim Bray
(ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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