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[Rick Jelliffe]
>The only documents that matter are those that are constructed
>by algorithm from databases. All that business with single-headed
>documents, document ID scopes, document types, using attributes
>to specialize the element, architectural forms-things, scoped attributes,
>trying to find idioms which could fit into people's heads, the emphasis on
>readability and writability, all that never happened or if it did
>couldn't possibly have worked, or if it did work, it worked for
>other reasons which probably don't apply now that we are
>much wiser and know that nothing can be done without Types,
>well at least our types, which are pretty similar to the other
>mobs types, trust me.
I've just come across this quote which I really like:
"Categories such as number, gender, case, time, mode, voice, aspect and
a host of others...are not so much discovered in experience as
imposed upon it".
- E Sapir
Conceptual Models in Primitive Languages
Science (1931)
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