RE: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

Programming is found in all of nature -- anything that is serial uses the
concept --- chemical reactions, biochemical reactions, physical reactions,
music, recipes. At their base, they are all "programming."



Bonnie Granat
http://www.GranatEdit.com 
Cambridge, Massachusetts
> 
> Somewhere along the line I got the idea that "programming" 
> was grasped and implemented in the weaving industry in the 
> 19th century.  Powered looms (running on waterwheel or steam 
> power) got their instructions for producing fabric from 
> cards, anticipating computer-readable paper tape and punch 
> card media. In other words, the operation of the loom was 
> reduced to operational instructions, encoded on separate 
> media, and fed into the looms to specify the steps and 
> parameters to produce the desired output (e.g., which bobbins 
> to pull thread from, what pattern to weave, how many threads 
> per inch, ...).
> I would say that this is difficult to distinguish from 
> software. Luddites must have had harsher comments.
> 



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