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- From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Hypertext (was Re: Intro. book on Eiffel Programming...?)
- Message-ID: <1864@snap>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 07:59:22 GMT
- References: <Brssyv.Boo@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <pyhmn2d.nagle@netcom.com> <GEOFF.92Jul28092531@wodehouse.flash.bellcore.com> <107@eiffel.eiffel.com>
- Reply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)
- Organization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK
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- In article <107@eiffel.eiffel.com> bertrand@eiffel.com (Bertrand Meyer) writes:
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- >I don't know how to write a book the way one writes an Eiffel system
- >(out of modular, decentralized components, meant for reusability and
- >extendibility).
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- I do. Its called `hypertext'.
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- For more information, see Ted Nelson's book `Dream Machines'.
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- What we don't have at the moment is a real hypertext authoring system
- (yes, I know about Hypercard et al, but there is nothing widespread
- enough to replace paper books).
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- Paul.
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