Re: Hosting of the cookbook

MJ Ray <[email protected]>
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On 2004-04-23 12:05:58 +0100 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]> wrote:

> Now I disagree with 1.  I believe a published book
> would be nice, but a working online resource is better
> than a book if there is tradeoff.

I think there is always likely to be some tradeoff. So, if there is a 
working online copy, it does not matter about the book?

Previously, you wrote "If PLT Scheme is ever going to attract a 
significant number of users documentation has to be available in the 
bookstores programmers visit".

I agree with March Noel more than I do with April Noel.

> Ok, so onton the path there.  Here I see:
> 1.  We have posited a path (use a wiki)

No, "use a wiki" is not a path. "use a wiki" is the construction 
method of the path. It says nothing about route or schedule.

> I'll finish with a
> reminder to heed the lesson from worse is better.  A
> working, flawed but fixable system is better than a
> perfevct but never implemented system.

...and a working perfect system is better, albeit impossible. Even 
followers of "worse is better" usually support use of some metrics so 
that they can determine improvement.

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