RE: Hosting of the cookbook

I'm going to break my silence with a few (probably
uninteresting) comments:

--- MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote:
> > A point about the source format being TWiki's: a
> > big reason I'm not very concerned about format 
> > conversions in future is that the source 
> > format in TWiki, much like other wikis, is such
> > a basic, almost plaintext format.
> 
> TWiki suffers from semantically-significant line
> noise. The WebIt sources were ignored and forgotten 
> about, but are basically easy to read and
comprehend.
> Little seems to be done to prevent the problem of 
> forgetting about them from happening again, while
> the partly-solved problem of formatting is being 
> solved afresh again.

I think it's great that Noel and Anton have taken
the initiative to create the new Cookbook site.  It's
quite nice looking, and I'm sure after playing with
it for a few minutes I'll be capable of adding new
information and thereby inculcate my bad habits and
technique in new generations of Scheme users.

However, I must admit to being a bit saddened that the
original WebIt! sources were abandoned.  I really
liked the idea of creating a Scheme document that
was entirely authored and published using Scheme
software.  I would be perfectly happy to discover that
the new Wiki was running under the Scheme wiki
software, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case.

Now, I've been basically a bump on a log, and haven't
contributed anything concrete recently so please take
my comments in the relatively "all-talk, no action"
fashion they should be!  :-)

-Brent



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