“The code might be organized in a hierarchy, but the solution has more dimensions than will fit in a hierarchy. So when you discover a solution in a dimension that crosses across the hierarchy, you just have to go where the solution takes you and put the solution in.”

A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), Collective Ownership of Code and Text

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American computer programmer who developed the first wiki 1949

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