Glenn Golden <g...@zplane.com> writes: > Regarding your observation that asciidoc is capable of generating decent man > pages and other documents, I would offer the analogy that programs like > WordStar, FrameMaker, WordPerfect, DisplayWriter, ElectricPencil, Interleaf, > [insert dozens more here]... were also capable of rendering decent-looking > documents. But how many source documents written in those languages would it > even be possible to render today at all, in any form whatsoever? > > To be fair, asciidoc (due to its simplicity) may not die as quickly and > thoroughly as did all the above. But still, I would opine that 40 years > from now, it will have been supplanted.
I sure hope that in the future we will not be writing documentation meant to look like paper. My guess for the future of documentation is HTML. -- Dan Espen
