Re: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do

["Ned Bedinger" <doc -at- edwordsmith -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."
>


You're saying that programming is a natural interaction among things in
nature, and is subject to, and driven by, the laws of nature (physics,
math,...) , and therefore there wouldn't be any useful distinction made by
saying something like "our programming/computing activities imitate nature's
serial strategy?" .

This interpretation --computing imitates nature-- does have that telltale
ring of a dogma, doesn't it?  But I do like the way it casts Nature as the
SME who is deeply involved in the mysteries of complexity, and leaves the
Programmer (indistinguishable from a Technical Writer) in the enviable
position of owning the task of finessing/wrestling the key definitions and
processes out into the light by dint of effort at observation, experience,
and sooner or later asking the right questions, so that our programs can
then imitate nature.

D-N-A-Fa-So-I-Pro-gram-ma


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