[plug] Community Seminars

[johnmorcos]

---- Original Message ----
From: cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Community Seminars
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 07:49:30 +0800

>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.
>

actually i always tell newbies to go and get the dummies guides they 
can be great starter books my old man who is 67 reads them and finds
them not bad, he complained about the internet for dummies one but
the others he found ok.








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