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This is.. about teaching people how to write text documents?
by 4b11b4 1y ago
This is.. about teaching people how to write text documents?
- goldfishgold 1y agoYes exactly. People who write text are not going to be excited about making saving their text such an extraordinarily complicated task, nor will they think it’s interesting in its own right.
- theletterf 1y agoThis is a dismissive comment, as is the parent. The post is about a well known software documentation paradigm.
- foobahhhhh 1y agoNot really. As a techie I prefer a CMS over say Jekyll.
- 4b11b4 1y agoI wasn't trying to be dismissive, only in line with the explicit call outs for simplicity from the author. I suppose I was trying to give the perspective of someone doesn't have a problem with authoring a markdown document for example... and bringing myself back to the reality that for most people authoring a document with any sort of formal (rigid, to be interpreted by machine) syntax is unfamiliar.
- PhilipRoman 1y agoBelieve it or not, when I started to learn programming I had no idea that "plain text" was a thing, since I had only been taught Word at school. So I think this is very valuable for many people who work in tech adjacent areas. Now I feel physical pain every time someone sends me documentation in Word format since I know there are at least five diverged versions floating around, with no easy way to compare them (Word diff is stuck in 20th century), full of embedded diagram PNGs that are impossible to update unless you were the author and inconsistent styling on top of that.