RE: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do

Subject: RE: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do
From: "Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:01:16 -0500


Programming is found in all of nature -- anything that is serial uses the
concept --- chemical reactions, biochemical reactions, physical reactions,
music, recipes. At their base, they are all "programming."



Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com
Cambridge, Massachusetts
>
> Somewhere along the line I got the idea that "programming"
> was grasped and implemented in the weaving industry in the
> 19th century. Powered looms (running on waterwheel or steam
> power) got their instructions for producing fabric from
> cards, anticipating computer-readable paper tape and punch
> card media. In other words, the operation of the loom was
> reduced to operational instructions, encoded on separate
> media, and fed into the looms to specify the steps and
> parameters to produce the desired output (e.g., which bobbins
> to pull thread from, what pattern to weave, how many threads
> per inch, ...).
> I would say that this is difficult to distinguish from
> software. Luddites must have had harsher comments.
>



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