On 6/16/2011 8:43 AM, Frederick Grose wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:34 AM, BGB <cr88...@gmail.com
<mailto:cr88...@gmail.com>> 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.
yeah.
and, here, I guess one can go into a bit more detail than is generally
done on Wikipedia, which is generally constrained mostly to a high-level
overview, rather than allowing itself to delve into "implementation
details". well, at least, so long as one doesn't want their article
deleted as part of the peer-review process (not happened to me
personally AFAICT, but there were a few articles like this I did find
that were deleted).
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.
yep, could be useful...
basically, as the wiki apparently doesn't contain a whole lot of content
thus-far, it wasn't as clear what sorts of content were appropriate.
--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...).
got it up and working:
http://cr88192.dyndns.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
sort of empty at the moment, as I set it up at the cost of eating some
into my sleeping time... and at putting off some homework which ideally
I should have been doing...
meanwhile, my servers' battery (LiON) is never reaching full charge,
which is sort of annoying (just sits there permanently with the charging
light on...).
or such...
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