The irony is if I "Up-Vote" that comment I will fall into its fallout.

On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 16:46:36 UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:
>
> It will also be a short era. Once the AI start writing code, there will be 
> no need for us coffee-fied wetware interfaces.
>
> So enjoy the music while you may.
>
> -- Mark 
>
> On Wednesday, July 25, 2018 at 4:58:01 AM UTC-7, @TiddlyTweeter wrote:
>>
>> I should write sometime about how "software" can become more like music 
>> playing. I.e. you have a vast system of "instruments" in play, each of 
>> which has a history, a way of working. 
>>
>> The art is in the mastery, at which level you can construct the new, and 
>> not repeat.
>>
>> Software is still fairly young. It is fairly crude. But the twin honing 
>> of both the "instrument" (code blocks) and intent of the user (player) is 
>> interesting and getting a bit clearer and useful without having to 
>> re-design the "instrument" every time.
>>
>> Josiah
>>
>> On Wednesday, 25 July 2018 13:21:42 UTC+2, TonyM wrote:
>>>
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> A friendly rant.
>>>
>>> In any given structure, there tends to be an atomic smallest unit. In 
>>> tiddlywiki this is the tiddler. This unit is so practical we tend to 
>>> operate in this domain. In databases the minimum unit is a record, and 
>>> people have to build larger structures such as client records (plural) to 
>>> get any meaningful work done. This is not the case, in tiddlywiki. 
>>>
>>> Because the tiddler title must be unique, you always have a unique key 
>>> to reference the smallest unit. This means you do not need to worry about 
>>> unique keys.
>>>
>>> If you want larger structures, especialy multiple multiline text fields 
>>> you need to build them. I think this only comes as a supprise to people 
>>> because the smallest unit is so useful.
>>>
>>> Here are a few ways to extend a tiddler
>>> Use the tiddler to tag a set of tiddlers
>>> Transclude other tiddlers
>>> Make "subtiddlers" such as tiddlername/subtiddler name
>>> Create a chain of tiddlers, or list of tiddlers
>>> Use datatiddlers
>>>
>>> For example if you have multiple quotes for fred and others, do new here 
>>> and call the tiddler quote, clone this to quote 1 and it to will be tagged 
>>> fred. Do as many as you want, now you want quotes from Wilma, clone one of 
>>> freds quotes, remove the fred tag and add wilma tag, now clone that for 
>>> multiple wilma quotes. Here you do not care about the quote titles Only 
>>> that the are unique and tagged with the quotee.
>>>
>>> There is I believe no structure you can not build with tiddlywiki. And 
>>> that is even before using alternate tag structures and custom fields.
>>>
>>> The universe has being fine built by quarks, so to is tiddlywiki built 
>>> on tidders.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>

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