Over on Twitter I (@TiddlyTweeter <https://twitter.com/TiddlyTweeter>) and Alex Hough (@100CreweRoad <https://twitter.com/100CreweRoad>) and others, have begun to open up a bit what is very unusual about TiddlyWiki. That is, its a kind of Quine. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)>
Its not esoteric as it might first look. Grasping what a Quine is very useful for beginners with TW who, naturally, think its going to behave like normal procedural software and then are surprised its doesn't. Stalwarts of TW know its a Quine, but its not always so easy to explain that. Rather they demo it via code and solutions instead. IMO, part of the reason for the VERY high quality of support here is partly because TW IS a Quine. Its open-endedness is a signal marker of "Quineness". Talking sensibly about the concrete implications of Quines is an open-ended task. That is somewhat remarkable in the field of normal software which normally has strict logical, determinate end-points. Best wishes Josiah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4886d5ed-9592-466e-918e-ca49d41c676a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
