[plug] Community Seminars

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Fri Jun 18 07:49:30 WST 2004


Bernd Felsche wrote:

| Try to explain the difference between program and data. Should be
| easy if you're in a library.

I don't think it's a particularly easy distinction to make.  Is HTML
code a programme or data?  How about TeX?  What about Docbook which
can be used to generate the other two?  Python or Java code with
embedded docstrings?  Literate programmes like TeX, Metafont or ifupdown?

Cameron.




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