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Originally Posted by Gregg Bell
Ha ha. I was just in a writers' forum where everybody was raving about Vellum. ('You have to buy a Mac to use it, but oh, it's so good for making ebooks!')
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It may be good for making ebooks but I suspect 'everybody' has never opened those ebooks in an editor where you can get down and dirty with the code.
Looking at Vellum's output reminds me of one contract decades back where I was to determine the feasibility of updating a budget projection program written in APL. My recommendation was two-fold. One being that it would be cheaper and easier to rewrite the code in a language that not write-only, the other being was to hire a person to ensure the the code was properly documented while it was being written.
For those who are unfamiliar with APL, take a look at the wikipedia
APL programming language entry. From my personal experience, the old comment about being able to write a program in one line in APL that would take a page of code in some other language is very true. To read that line of code a month later and figure out what you were doing? That was the real trick.