Some people dream of writing Prolog rules for the Web. Via Garret . He meant it as a compliment and he was right. But today I went to a meeting and planned for the future instead of doing a demo. Then I realized why.
Software developers live with the idea that software is always changing.
Building software that can deal with change is hard but possible - and as soon as it's working we want to show off. But most people see software only as the means to something - and wonder why they never seem to get there. And a good storyteller knows when a demo is a necessary part of the story. But I'll demo next time, anyway - we all have our favorite stories. Then he went ahead and created the Simplified Docbook .