Re: Is Programming Boring?

On 2006-09-08 12:37:27 -0400, "Rob Thorpe" <robert.thorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

What makes wikipedia interesting as a phenomenon is that it's shown
that it's not terrifically hard to get an encyclopedia written that
way. The difficult bit is getting it correct.

The other difficult bit, as Jeff pointed out, is deciding what should be included and what shouldn't - i.e., what constitutes real "knowledge" and what constitutes mere ephemera.

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