i'm not so sure lutus could be called a luddite. oh, and this is 1976...
It's really hard to write technically accurate instructions, or at least it must be, because so many instructions are ambiguous. I followed a "friendship bread" recipe that said to, after making the batter, "put 1 cup of batter into four bags." What they meant was, "put 4 cups of batter into 4 separate bags."
After baking, I had a sloppy loaf, and got ribbed by my wife for, "not following the instructions." When I pointed out that what I did was technically accurate, she said I should have done what they "obviously" meant, not what they literally said.
Anyway, the bread was still good. :-)