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Because of the power of metaphor. A PDF is, in the popular consciousness, a digital form of paper. Anything that could be on paper? PDF. Think of it as an FFI
by 1attice 4y ago
Because of the power of metaphor.
A PDF is, in the popular consciousness, a digital form of paper. Anything that could be on paper? PDF.
Think of it as an FFI for the paper-based OS that our civ still runs upon (and may always.)
Like, network-based civ is kind of like a VM, and numerated paper documents (laws, etc.) are libc, and when you want to call out to the underlying reality, you use PDF.