Hi dig,
awk expresses himself differently from you and I.
Perhaps I am being unfair but I think awk-language is rather hard to achieve and so it is a bunch easier to be brief. He has adopted the argot of technical folks: a language that's almost by definition non-fluent and indeed, it's all Geek to me.
dig and cactus language deliberately avoids the technical spaghetti and so it is much easier to operate. It's all about analogies and the avoidance of German engineering standards. I think it's just a bit easier to roll out our kind of heap. Indeed, whenever I am precise, I almost always end up with egg on my face: coincidence?
Looking back, I realise my contributions happened between 2001-3, when no one much had imagined a universal TC water system. So I said in a general kind of way, think lots of water everywhere and stuff swirling around. Whoosh. See? And folks responded by saying - crazy dude.
But for the credibility and the detail you need an awk, and his way of describing the world as a system of pipes and spigots took hold from maybe around 2004. Pipes and spigots. You gotta be a pipes and spigots guy to be excited by em. But we all know they make the water system work.
It is strange, though, when you hear people say - the universal water system idea began in 2004.
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