Re: Please stop writing specifications that cannot be parsed/processed by software

hi Michael,

On Sat, 27 May 2023 08:50:23 +0100
Michael Kay <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 
> > I have a hypothesis that such wilfully-ignorant, non-geeky, non-hackery,
> > people are becoming less influential, less attractive, and rarer:
> >   
> 
> I recall a brilliant young musician who took over directing an amateur choir
> at the age of 22. Three years later, when he moved on to higher things, he
> talked at his leaving party about what he had learnt: "I came here thinking
> that if someone didn't know what a hemiola was, he must be stupid. Then I
> realised he was a professor of theoretical physics."
> 
> It's not that people are stupid, it's that they are expert in a different
> domain; and some of them are rightly impatient of the hoops we expect them to
> jump through to use the tools we provide.
> 

I think computers [incl portable devices], the internet, and web 1.0/web
2.0/social media/etc. are essential for everyone that wants2matter. and that
means knowing english, python3, and XML/XHTML5/HTML5.

While I market myself as a "humorist, writer, and software geek" [
https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#who_are_you ], I accumulated a lot of
polymathy knowledge and memes, which is useful for my work, but which I think
isnt a "must-know". E.g: perl5/CPAN, Hebrew, C/POSIX, cmake, or many quotations
I like.


> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
> 
> 
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