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... > > > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > [email protected] > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc >
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