On Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 5:15 AM Jesper Louis Andersen < jesper.louis.ander...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 5:11 AM Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote: > >> >> It is nice that the specification allows for an efficient implementation. >> But I agree with Dan that your documentation is opaque, obtuse, >> inscrutable, etc. So much so that I initially thought it was some sort of >> April Fools Day joke. >> >> > April Fools? > > No. > > It's an art installation. A lament to the mistakes we've made. The > documents WE've written. But no-one reads. We revel in the 113 lines of > pure specification, as a temple to Alan Kay. Documentation must be > executable! The page implements human Hypertext is the Engine of > Application State (HATEOAS), creating an interlinked web of important data. > You MUST dig(1) to understand. Also note that the page is a mirror into a > better world. A world in which text://protocol exists! It's for the youth. > They never experienced the raw information exchange driven by > Sync-on-Green. They never experienced Unix in its pure form. Or plan 9. > Instead, they are forced, by the power of the DOM and CSS, to live in a > pin-holed world where the light only shines occasionally. This is their BBS. > > This doesn't belong on a mailing list. It should be put in an art gallery. > > Well I'm convinced this is art, and once it's viewed that way, I think it stops being confounding and becomes delightful. Sending it to my Art History contacts for analysis. Maybe by putting it in the proper context we can come to understand it better (or at least... differently). > -- > J. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGrdgiUQNgEXaaB%3Dy8BCVaE%2Bc%2BRCwxbmLeUJNh%2B-Lq%2B27t3LWQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAGrdgiUQNgEXaaB%3Dy8BCVaE%2Bc%2BRCwxbmLeUJNh%2B-Lq%2B27t3LWQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CALJzkY-hGCRQB1cV%3DsexR05dyHZF07a19wL%3D-PVxtE9sZNMf0w%40mail.gmail.com.
