On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Tim Daly <d...@axiom-developer.org> wrote: > Hmmm. I may have misunderstood your point. I thought you were suggesting > writing code that is not part of the distribution in order to get a > minimal running system and then working from that. If that is not what > you're suggesting then I'm confused.
No, I was just suggesting that the order of the material put the stuff in the distribution that's necessary to bootstrap a minimally functional repl first, culminating in the eval function and the command-line repl class, then flesh out the rest of Clojure's feature-set with the rest of the stuff in the distribution. No new code. > The pamphlet sources are in a git repository so they are immutable. > > Wikis are fine for a lot of things but not for linearizing the > ideas into a readable literate form. Books fulfill that role. I suggested *maybe* letting the wiki users try to decide, collectively, on a linearization; maybe that would prove workable and maybe not. If not, you'd have to linearize it yourself to make the book version. But if you're looking for section submissons and user proof-reading a wiki can at least organize that activity, and can provide "seeds" by having unwritten sections in there with just the source code that is to be explained. And without potential contributors maybe being put off by having to learn a whole extra set of tools (namely, github and whatever client software) and get a login at some site (github). Some might not have used git. A few might not have used any code repository system. A wiki on the other hand can be edited by anyone who can type stuff into a web form and can be configured not to require a login (ala Wikipedia itself). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
