Ask HN: What is the best resource for understanding Ted Nelson's ZigZag?

2 pointsdarkhorse131 comment

I have always been fascinated with this data structure, but the resources I found on the web are too confusing for me. I understand a few parts of it, but not enough to see the usefulness. Can anyone point me to the right direction?

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The usefulness is very much in doubt. A post here not long ago from a dev who worked on Xanadu said they tried to tell Ted that tumblers, his address locating scheme, was too brittle to use in practice. If a single character changed in text the address would change.[0] I posit that Ted's insistence on this storage and accessing method was part of the reason the software never got off the ground.[1]

[0] http://www.xanadu.com.au/ted/XUsurvey/xuDation.html

[1] http://mimix.io/getting-to-xanadu

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