Forking, and creating competing modules for the same task or purpose is common.

In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created The Garden of Forking Paths, a branching style short story that is often considered an inspiration for the concept of hypertext.

An example is Jorge Luis Borges, who won American fame with " The Garden of Forking Paths ", published in the August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

Destiny's realm is The Garden of Forking Ways, where he continually walks its maze-like paths.

The concept also arises outside the framework of quantum mechanics, as is found in Jorge Luis Borges short story El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (" The Garden of Forking Paths "), published in 1941 before the many-worlds interpretation had been invented.

Forking is an important part of Unix, critical to the support of its design philosophy, which encourages the development of filters.

James Joyce's Ulysses ( 1922 ), Enrique Jardiel Poncela's La Tournée de Dios ( 1932 ), Jorge Luis Borges ' The Garden of Forking Paths ( 1941 ), Vladimir Nabokov's Pale Fire ( 1962 ) and Julio Cortázar's Rayuela ( 1963 ; translated as Hopscotch ) are early examples predating the word " hypertext ", while a common pop-culture example is the Choose Your Own Adventure series in young adult fiction and other similar gamebooks.

The Garden of Forking Paths is both a hypertext story and a description of a fictional hypertext work.

The non-linear story is narrated via different time frames, a technique derived from the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ( as in The Garden of Forking Paths ).

Borges ' later work El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan (" The Garden of Forking Paths ") describes a Chinese writer who goes into seclusion to write a book and construct a maze, the twist being that the end result is a combination of the two, but in one item the fictional novel is a maze-like narrative which only makes sense if read in the correct manner.

This theme is also developed in The Circular Ruins, The Garden of Forking Paths, The Sect of the Phoenix, and in a sense throughout all of Borges ' writing.

The Melody of Oblivion is a series rife with cultural references ranging from Zen archery and Bushido to the Bible's Book of Revelation, stories of Greek Mythology, and images from Borge's " The Garden of Forking Paths " can be seen in the series.

" The Garden of Forking Paths " ( original Spanish title: ) is a 1941 short story by Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.

According to Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, " The concept Borges described in ' The Garden of Forking Paths '— in several layers of the story, but most directly in the combination book and maze of Ts ' ui Pên — is that of a novel that can be read in multiple ways, a hypertext novel.

Wardrip-Fruin and Montfort write: " Our use of computers is ... based on the visions of those who like Borges — pronouncing Garden of Forking Paths from the growing dark of his blindness — saw those courses that future artists, scientists and hackers might take.

In " The Garden of Forking Paths " Jorge Luis Borges suggests that a mystery in a story may be solved if the central narrative is regarded as referring to something by its absence.

* J. L. Borges-Ficciones ( The Garden of Forking Paths and Artifices translated by Anthony Bonner )

The city also appears in a short story, The Garden of Forking Paths, by the Argentine writer Jorge Luís Borges.

In 1948, the story The Garden of Forking Paths was translated into English by Anthony Boucher and published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

* Ayssar Arida's linking of " The Garden of Forking Paths " and quantum theory's sum over histories concept for an event-driven urbanism project.

It first appeared in 1941 in the journal Sur, and then was included in the 1941 collection The Garden of Forking Paths ( El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ), before being included in Ficciones, part one.

He also appeared on the ABC show FlashForward in the episode " The Garden of Forking Paths ", playing a researcher.

It was reclassified as a short story when it was reprinted in 1942 in Borges ' first short fiction collection, The Garden of Forking Paths ( El jardin de senderos que se bifurcan ), which became a subsection of Ficciones when it was published in 1944.

In 1941, Borges ' second anthology of fiction, The Garden of Forking Paths ( El Jardín de senderos que se bifurcan ) was published.

In 1944, a new section labeled " Artifices ," containing six stories, was added to the eight of The Garden of Forking Paths.

It includes " Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ", " The Garden of Forking Paths ", and " The Library of Babel ", three of Borges ' most famous stories.

English title: Garden of Forking Paths, published as a section of Ficciones.

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