On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 16:56:04 +0100 Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:14:23PM +0200, Jacobo Tarrio wrote:
> > Of course, a copy of the GNU Emacs manual printed on dead trees
> > is
> > unequivocally documentation,
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> You mean 'not software'. It's always documentation; in softcopy form
> it happens to be software as well (and since it's written in info, it
> probably qualifies as a program).
I'm not convinced: a copy of the GNU Emacs manual printed on paper is
still software, just like the source (or even the binary in hexadecimal)
of a program printed on paper. It's information that may be processed by
a computer system: it's just stored on an unpractical physical support
(paper).
The manual on paper is obviously documentation as well.
--
:-( This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS? ;-)
......................................................................
Francesco Poli GnuPG Key ID = DD6DFCF4
Key fingerprint = C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
Attachment:
pgpCTJ7mJgLtP.pgp
Description: PGP signature