On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 kband@www.llamacom.com wrote:
What exactly do you mean? As the one who made pretty much all the Sept. 11 pages, I can tell you that the subpage functionality made
it
much easier--I certainly wouldn't have been able to deal with all of the information in there if I didn't make some kind of subpagery. I'm certainly not tied to the particular implementation of the
UseModWiki,
but the ability to generate pages tied into another page without having to type the entire title every time is extremely useful.
-TC
that strikes me as ridiculous. Ctrl+c, ctrl+v.
Why should I have to do that if it can be automated?
Why should we revert to an inferior technology just to save you a little convenience? That's ridiculous. EVERYONE is having to do extra work in order to make the switch to the (better) new software.
There's that good Yankee-Puritan ethic: if it tastes bad and is more difficult, it's better.
Better == more convenient, not more work, in the world of software.
If EVERYONE is having to do extra work, then we're wasting a lot of human-hours which could be better spent just making good articles.
And I'm not arguing for any "reversion" to "inferior" technology. That would be ridiculous. I'm talking about better information management techniques--how exactly to implement those is a secondary issue.
--tc