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• To: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: more politics
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:49:09 -0700
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John Cowan wrote:

> Tim Bray scripsit:
> 
> 
>>I think it would be Good if life were that simple, but whereas the 
>>abstraction of "the document" vs "what the document's about" works 
>>beautifully, I'm told, in the discipline of architecture, I just don't 
>>have good experiences trying to make things in other application spaces 
>>line up so neatly.
> 
> 
> Can you provide some examples?

The many millions of web pages that aren't about anything in particular 
(they contain poems, or abstract art, or whatever).  The (physical) 
robots and coke-machines and so on that can be controlled via HTTP.

I'm not claiming for a moment that this isn't a useful relationship; 
just that it's not remotely universal.

-- 
Cheers, Tim Bray
         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)

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