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Code is Powerful #34

Open lief-erickson opened 6 years ago

lief-erickson commented 6 years ago

I agree that code-like writing is very powerful. No disagreement.

"Only languages and toolchains that offer you inline dynamism — and here I mean DITA as much as AsciiDoc or RST — actually enhance the power of your writing."

I was doing inline dynamism with unstructured FrameMaker, especially since FrameMaker was scriptable through FrameScript and then later its own, internal scripting language. None of this invalidates what's written, but I want to call attention to the fact that even 1990s-era unstructured FrameMaker could do code-like inline dynamism.

briandominick commented 6 years ago

I think it's really unlikely that I'm going to acknowledge FrameMaker as a valid docs-as-code tool, or even a valid tool at all. I talked to the Adobe folks at their table at LavaCon a couple years ago. They seemed disappointed when I told them I did not have access to a CD-ROM to install their demo software :-D. But your point is solid. Thanks for the history lesson!