Re: Future of the cookbook
MJ Ray <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.scheme.plt.schematics |
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| Organization | Very poor |
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On 2004-03-26 00:59:33 +0000 Noel Welsh <noelwelsh-/[email protected]> wrote: > Most software on Schematics is LGPL and I'm happy to > go with that. [...] Other authors: are you happy with it? >> 2. What are the "Using PLT Scheme" sections for? > Mainly to explain the important differences between > PLT Scheme and r5rs Scheme. E.g. the use of square > brackets for visual emphasis. Differences PLT-R5RS are probably a book on their own. Square brackets are an abomination not to be encouraged ;-) >> 4. Where in CVS is the source? What do I need? > > /doc/cookbook ; WebIt! > > To me the main issue is how the cookbook is developed. > Currently you edit the Scheme source in CVS. I think using Scheme source is fine, although how do we validate WebIt? > I'm > suggesting a more open process that 1) allows more > people to participate and 2) reduces the time taken to > make an addition. I'm suggesting a wiki, either > hosted by some kind soul (possibly PLT) or at > wikibooks. Ability to add notes, wiki-style or blog-style, feels a better way forwards to me. If it goes entirely wiki, we must have good revision control for the maintainers. It's not fun farming a wiki without it. > [...] Wikibooks uses the FDL. FDL? Let's not go there, then. > [...] People might appreciate a > more general cookbook that covers all Schemes. [...] Most of what I write about will be based on non-PLT-specific concepts like pregexp, so I don't have a problem in leaving it open. It may be good to have implementation-specific sections as additions to each main chapter. > 1. Intro to (PLT) Scheme > 2. Scheme Programming Style > 3. Cookbook Sounds good to me, although I can't really help with s2. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know. Please http://remember.to/edit_messages on lists to be sure I read http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ gopher://g.towers.org.uk/ [email protected] Creative copyleft computing services via http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click