Il lun, 2002-04-08 alle 00:15, Joe Wreschnig ha scritto: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 14:29, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > Unfortunately this is becoming less true. CSS contains statements for > > > content generation and counting variables. Is this a program? I'm not > > > sure, but it's definitely not just a document anymore. XSLT can be > > > included as "documentation" (and probably is in a lot of places, in or > > > outside of Debian), and XSLT is Turing-complete. Where does the line get > > > drawn? Is it possible to draw one? > > > > It's possible to draw a line. The GNU FDL clearly describes what a > > "Transparant copy" is for example. > > Whether or not it describes what a transparent copy is is irrelevant. In > fact, XML and HTML (and I would imagine therefore CSS and XSLT) are > explicitly listed as transparent formats. I'm not going to argue that. > The problems, although they're transparent, they're programs as well as > documents. I'm sure there's typesetting systems (I only have a passing > familiarity with LaTeX) that are Turing-complete too. What is a > document, and what is a program? How can Debian even begin to > distinguish what makes free documentation different from free software > when we can't distinguish whether a particular piece of data is software > or documentation in the first place?
TeX is turing complete. apart from that, i'd say that
a program is mainly intended to be run on a computer
documentation is mainly intended to be run on a brain
even with such strange documents as literate programs (cfr. the WEB
system), the program and the documentation are easily distinguishable
(and they are in the *same* document!)
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