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Maybe there's a good reason we like linear text: we are humans, we have with 1 stream of attention, we like to communicate serially and verbally. We don't usual
by ignifero 16y ago
Maybe there's a good reason we like linear text: we are humans, we have with 1 stream of attention, we like to communicate serially and verbally. We don't usually "understand" a map, although we can memorize it, in contrast to a book which we can both memorize and understand.
- david927 16y agoI've always thought it was the equivalent of writing an accounting system in linear text. It think it's an abomination and I'm one of many working hard to end it.
- meterplech 16y agoThere are definitely advantages for our understanding. But, when writing highly parallelized code I always thought the linear style was somehow odd. It would be cool to see other ideas that would map more directly with that type of thinking.