On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:34 AM, BGB <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6/15/2011 8:04 PM, BGB wrote:
>
>> On 6/15/2011 3:22 PM, Ian Piumarta wrote:
>>
>>> On Jun 15, 2011, at 14:09 , BGB wrote:
>>>
>>>  http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki
>>>>>>
>>>>> description sounds like it is specific to the FoNC / VPRI projects...
>>>>
>>> Sorry about that.  I left the original main page, figuring that people
>>> would just start a new page and when some useful content had been
>>> accumulated we'd rearrange things on the main page.  Misconception
>>> corrected.
>>>
>>
>> yeah, cool.
>>
>> (was gone much of the day, recently got back).
>>
>>
>> I went and created this page (partly as a test):
>> http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/Dynamic_typing
>>
>> I generally tried to keep it fairly generic.
>>
>> I opted with this for the moment, rather than describing my own stuff, as
>> I am not certain the level of "project-specificness" which is appropriate.
>>
>>
>
> ended up writing a few more articles, mostly about generic
> programming-language stuff, but then was thinking that maybe the point of
> this is not to do like a half-assed Wikipedia and describe a bunch of
> general topics that probably most people here already know about
> (type-systems, class/instance and prototype OO, vtables and method
> dispatching, ...).
>
> even if, yes, I found some of this stuff personally relevant when
> implementing my own VM stuff. (sadly, much of my own thinking largely boils
> down to personal experiences and trivia...).
>

Practical experience, thoughtfully recorded, often helps in learning.


>

I guess the alternative would be that "we" (myself and others on this list?)
> write about our respective projects, and then comment on them?...
>

Having  a glossary available for new learners is valuable, especially when
terms are hyper-linked either to internal or other wiki pages such as those
on Wikipedia.

http://vpri.org/fonc_wiki/index.php/Glossary

When we get the version upgrade, we should install
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpecialInterwiki
, which allows convenient interwiki linking.

          --Fred



for my own uses, I am off downloading/installing MediaWiki (on my personal
> webserver), mostly that I can try writing about stuff without needlessly
> polluting the wiki with potentially irrelevant topics (and, I can possibly
> use it as a documentation system, probably alongside my present "write stuff
> in HTML using Composer" strategy...).
>
> (sadly, there is other stuff I should be doing right now, hmm...).
>
> or such...
>
>
>
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