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> Text is the best available way

I said exactly that. I added that it's horrific and it's not hard to imagine that we will find a better way.




I can't see how it's horrific. It's got an incredibly strong historical record.


> strong historical record

So did the medical practice of bleeding out a patient. It's been the only way but being the only book in the library doesn't qualify how good the book is.

The problem with text is that it's not structured and therefore very difficult to manage. If you're going to create data for an accounting system, do you open up a Word document and start typing words like "Jimmy owes A/R five hundred?" Of course not because while you can search that, you can't query it. When was the last time you queried your code? Exactly.

Horrific.

And we can see it in our lives. When was the last time you jumped into someone else's code and could clearly see what was going on? Probably about the same time you last opened the middle of a novel and understood what was going on.


> So did the medical practice of bleeding out a patient. It's been the only way but being the only book in the library doesn't qualify how good the book is.

Bloodletting hasn't been performed for hundreds of years. We still use writing to convey ideas.

> The problem with text is that it's not structured . . .

Text is as structured as the author makes it.




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