Went Through it With Brad

Joaquin Miller joaquin at netmesh.us
Sat Nov 11 16:33:53 UTC 2006


Are we conflating 'computer interpreted' with 'computer interpretable'?

Of course, there doesn't need to be a trade off between user readable 
and computer interpretable; it is easy to accomplish both.

But 'computer interpretable' does not mean 'computer interpreted'.

There is a tradeoff between, on the one hand, having the computer 
interpret the version string and make compatibility decisions based 
on information encoded in that string and, on the other hand, 
requiring that the computer limit itself to exact string matching.

Cordially, Joaquin

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