Re: [stack] Re: the concatenative wikipedia article

On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Adam wrote:

> Also, concatenative.org is editable by the public as well if you  
> register.

This is probably one of those "should wait 24 hours before sending  
emails", but oh well...

Concatenative.org feels more like the future Factor wiki to me than a  
general repository for information about concatenative languages. I  
understand that Factor is a useful language (in contrast to Joy, Cat,  
etc). I also understand that it's Slava's site. That said, I'd much  
prefer it if the Factor-specifics were separated into their own wiki  
(subdirectories on a wiki are meaningless) so the content could focus  
exclusively on the theory of concatenative languages.

The dead links everywhere to things like "C++" and "garbage  
collection" make it look like a bit of a wasteland and make the  
purpose of the site less clear. I've asked if I could remove them but  
was told not to. This is probably just be some overly territorial part  
of my primitive mammalian brain going off, but I'm not comfortable  
contributing to it in its current state.

A clear statement of intent for the site (and adherence to it) would  
help me out. I'm not really interested in contributing to "The Factor  
+ Some Concatenative Stuff Wiki". I'm sure such a thing is not Slava's  
explicit intent, but it seems to be drifting in that general direction.

Then again, perhaps this is just my problem. It wouldn't be the first  
time!

- John