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
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