Here is Melvin Conway’s foundation point from his 1963 paper defining coroutines:
“That property of the design which makes it amenable to many segment configurations is its separability.”

I found that that an interesting section Ken Krechemer had contributed to the Wikipedia article on the Standardization of OOXML had been deleted for being an editorial. Anyway, I hope Ken doesn’t mind me taking the liberty of reprinting it here.

I loathe making documents with numbered headings or any kind of definite design in Word Processors. I find numbered headings and lists annoying in Word at best, maddening in Open Office at worst, so I have been using AbiWord today. If you want to take a design-driven approach, then most Word Processors just suck. AbiWord is a non-nonsense, calm-feeling free WP not targeted at very large documents. It has a native XML format pretty simple for transformations into and out of, and basic ODF and OOXML import/export.

But it is no use me sitting here complaining that people are saying “drop SGML” without even knowing what it is they are dropping. So I thought I’d make some little diagrams roughly scoping a basic machine for SGML family parsers.

A counter-reformation rather than a reformation? But welcome none-the-less.

In the late 1980s, RAM cost about 10^⁵ per dollar, and in the early 1990s it was cheaper but still fairly flat. But a big price fall started in about 1996, so that by 2000 RAM was about 10^⁷ per dollar.

There are a number of ways in which text can be introduced, changed or disappeared, though each format will have a different mix of possibilities.

Here is a better overview of the i4i patent.

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More projects seem to be coming across my desk that ultimately involve building information systems whose primary requirements come from legislation or regulations. And sometimes even the detailed requirements. Legislation is sometimes quite a nice Requirement Specification: it is expressed…