Rapid browsability and informal, mid-job access are important but remarkably difficult to achieve. The helpee is not always sure where that tiny but cosmically vital piece of help is lurking. More often than not a simple question invokes a daunting overdose of unhelpful diversions. The car-owner wants to get from here to there without studying the molecular structure of hydrocarbons or the love life of Nicolas Carnot. On the broader educational front many computer topics suddenly become unfashionable.
B can quickly become as meaningless as a medieval angel-counting contest.
Small wonder that ACM's SIG are planning a daily newsletter. We need an acceptable deductive framework free from the influences of xenophobia, inventory levels and sales commission. The rewards will be great. Principia Rationorum Digitorum would bring similar stability to the computer trade. At least until a Lobachevski or Riemann pounces on the axioms.