On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 14:17, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > As far as I can tell, [modificaion] almost never happens in the case of > executable code, where there's always some reason or desire to make a tweak. > (For *extremely* short snippets, maybe, but probably only ones short enough > to contain no originality.) It never happens with documentation, which can > always be improved. It rarely if ever happens with essays. It certainly > never happens with non-fiction writing. According to most of what I've > read by fiction writers, it doesn't happen much with fiction writing > either. It might happen with oddities like checksums under rare > circumstances, I suppose. Translations into other languages are a form of modification; so are many format conversions, and even simple operations like character set transcodes probably might be, too. Such things could happen to any document (fiction or non-fiction, essay or program documentation) during its lifetime. -- Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>
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