On Thursday, 20 December 2018 12:51:13 UTC+1, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > > Joe > > FYI I'm not a programmer and don't want to be one :-). >
It's fun - once you get the hang of if > > But I found your probing is very illuminating. > > Thanks > Given you are a highly achieved programmer I find it interesting even you > need to grapple the TW. > I grapple with everything - I can't just cut and paste code - I want to dig down and understand what every line does - so I'm a very slow learner. > > I think there is a kind of "implicit" TW zeitgeist or weltanschauung in TW > that is both very happily bracing and quite askance (oblique) to other > stuff. Once we get into it I think we tend forget its divergences. > > THB I think Jeremy does not fully know himself quite how far he has got > and how good it is. > It's a great achievement - It takes a lot longer to understand what we have created than to do the creation. You see this all the time - Politicians pass laws all the time, but it takes a long time to understand the consequences of these laws - same for programming. > > One thing I'm kinda interested in is "comparing Wiki". IMO we are > underselling TW. Its a different world. > Well I'd appreciate your feedback -- I'm just dithering along saying "I think this <in TW speak>" means "XYZ in pseudocode" but I'm not really sure if this is by accident or design. Does it do something by accident or because it was designed to do exactly this Cheers /Joe > > Just thoughts > Josiah > > > joearms wrote: > There is method in my madness :-) > > I'm trying to relate stuff I don't know (ie the tiddlywiki) to stuff I do > know > (ie regular programming languages) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" 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/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/2e19b08b-81bb-4a8d-be7a-ad6616576d43%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
