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by JonnieCache 3474 days ago
I wonder what people with literary theory degrees make of RFCs. Much the same I imagine.
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RFCs are templates for tangible products. They don't exist for their own sake, and can be judged by their artifacts.

What does postmodernism accomplish?

It attempts to describe certain aspects of human cultural interaction, broadly defined.

I'm not defending it, I share the opinions of many of it's detractors, my point is only that to describe a technical subject you don't understand as incomprehensible nonsense is silly.