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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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