Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Wittek
Juerd schrieb: * Markdown does not have tables. * Textile does not have paragraphs in table cells. * Kwiki does not have paragraphs in table cells. Unless someone comes up with another way to do side-by-side layouts (extremely useful for showcasing differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6),

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Wittek
Damn, forgot the link. Thomas Wittek schrieb: That's mainly what I did as stated in my first post[1]. [...] [1]: news://nntp.perl.org:119/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-06 Thread Udo Güngerich
Thomas Wittek wrote: Good ideas. But maybe we should start a bit smaller ;) It might be a good idea to create a list of features separated in several increments (releases) to get a running system early. Absolutely. I could imagine increments like Parsing/Converting, Storage

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-03 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Thomas Wittek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-03 22:30]: Interestingly it is very similar to Markdown although I never heard about it before :) Hmm, it doesn’t look similar at all to me? Not even superficially similar, but most importantly, it looks line-based. Markdown is block-based. If you want

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-01 Thread Ask Bjørn Hansen
On Jun 1, 2006, at 6:45, Ovid wrote: In any event, if you can come up with a solid set of contest rules, TPF can consider whether or not we can officially run the contest. It sounds like a nice idea, I just don't know what's involved. I wouldn't claim to entirely comprehend the rules,

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-06-01 Thread Fagyal Csongor
Hi, Hi Conrad, I run the grant committee for the Perl Foundation and I sit on the steering committee, so I suppose I can discuss your proposal (there are some other TPF folk here, too, so that's why this is a public email). Also, the following stuff is just off the top of my head and is in

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-29 Thread Juerd
Darren Duncan skribis 2006-05-28 14:37 (-0700): For one thing, I'm assuming that a prize-qualifying solution won't be able to link-in legacy Perl 5 modules using Pugs' use perl5:Foo syntax; to do so would look bad if we are wanting to show off a Wiki solution using the NEW technology. I'm

Re: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-28 Thread Darren Duncan
I'm wondering about some implementation logistics. For one thing, I'm assuming that a prize-qualifying solution won't be able to link-in legacy Perl 5 modules using Pugs' use perl5:Foo syntax; to do so would look bad if we are wanting to show off a Wiki solution using the NEW technology.

RE: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6

2006-05-28 Thread Conrad Schneiker
-Original Message- From: Amir E. Aharoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 1:54 PM [...] It's funny - i was the first one who proposed the wiki idea and i didn't think that it will go so far (1000$$$). If you ask me, this wiki should be done ASAP in Media-Wiki.