Interesting thoughts guys! ;-)
Having now thought about this for another hour ;-) I've come to the conclusion that the very best description for what we do in TW is probably "hacking"! (Not that I called for help with a perfect term in my OP but anyway). I mean, *hacking* very much implies coding but it is of a more direct and pragmatic good-enough kind than something optimal. Plus it fits perfectly with the other connotation of the term; to tinker. So - for myself - I'm hereby re-defining "hacking" from being a somewhat dubious sub-activity to coding into a full and legitimate activity of itself and this is exactly what "doing TW" is about. Well, except for if you're doing the behind-the-scenes javascript TW stuff, which is of course real programming. This came to me as I read Jeremys thoughts about "casting our minds into the position of the computer"? We are far away from machine coding and the evolution of computer programming languages has meant more and more abstractions to get closer to natural language (and now even natural thinking). TW seems to break a holy content-vs-code paradigm in coding by freely mixing the two. Maybe it is because TW is so targeted to end users... we produce textual content and, mid sentence, there appears a need for something that is only accessible via some hacking trickery. This is unlike any other coding I've ever seen (but, admittedly, I am not a programmer). Or are there other comparable examples where content and tools-to-control-content is mixed so arbitrarily? <:-) -- 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/de1761d9-97a4-4c02-b166-0164ef6d474c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
