Re: Differences between Org-Mode and Hyperbole

[Robert Weiner]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 7:51 PM, John Wiegley <address@hidden> wrote:

Even Carsten will admit
he's not a software architect by trade; he did what he did based on what he
wanted to achieve with Org-mode, and not based on engineering decisions.

Well that explains a lot to those of us unfamiliar with the history.  Maybe the

popularity is based on two things: 1. they provided a welcoming community

that allowed for many people to contribute; 2. they provided the only significant

solution in these areas to people who wanted to do them within Emacs.

Now that all the useful work has been done, and experiences gained, it could
be a good time to sift out some of the best of its functionality into separate
modules.

Or produce a coherent set of requirements and have an Emacs-familiar architect

and programmer (or team) work to produce new implementations with clean

data abstractions, improved visual formats and even higher usability.  Task

tracking, agendas, outlining and literate programming are important daily work

areas for  many technical people, so Emacs should have excellent tools in these

areas.  Has anyone examined the org-mode code to see whether it is well

written or not?

Bob