OK, let me revise that. The path away from the quagmire needs to reintroduce simplicity, and especially single simple jobs that iteratively improve a piece of text, with immediate gratification. There probably need to be several simultaneous small-to-medium-size units of work that offer closure and positive reinforcement for the benefit of people who don't have toolchains they know intimately and have been refining for years; and other people who can be persuaded to adopt and learn them. On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:00 AM, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

don said:

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There probably need to be several simultaneous small-to-medium-size units of work that offer closure and positive reinforcement.

at the beginning of this year, when we had this same thread, i coded an entire workflow of single-purpose components...

mercifully, the thread dribbled away, and i can't even recall if i mentioned it, because i was glad all this misery stopped.

and now that it's been started again, i haven't mentioned it, because i'm still hoping this current thread will die as well... (y'all are not just sadists, it seems, you are also masochists.)

but perhaps i will show you what i've done the _next_ time someone is foolhardy enough to bring up this b.s. again...

which i'm thinking should be right around june of next year.

-bowerbird

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