On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 23:32 -0800, Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > Erick Tryzelaar wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > > > So, you can see the pretty alpha version of a blog here: > > http://idle-minds.net. It's still missing some features, such as posting > > mails to the mailing list and trac integration. But check it out, and > > let me know what you guys think! > > > > Oh and John, I made an account for you to play around with, I'll mail > > that to you separately. > > There's a couple things left to do before I'd want to make it live. Most > importantly is getting each blog message get emailed to a mailing list. > I first have to find a good html2text converter, or set up > reStructuredText conversion (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html), > or something, first though. John, how would you prefer things since > you're the target user?
I'm not the target user .. I'm already reasonably committed to Felix. There is a tension between generated and hand coded information. Generated information is of course also hand coded, but it is hand coded at a higher level. For example the Felix grammar in ISO C/C++ style format is actually generated from the Ocamlyacc source file. In theory with a suitable tool, the language description should be 'literated' in the same file to ensure a complete synchronised description of the language. In practice this is hard because LALR(1) grammars are highly artificial .. eg contain nonterminals to express tailed recursions instead of using a regexp like * term. This makes it very hard to actually embed the documentation in the parser source file. OTOH a hand written description is very hard to keep synchronised with the actual grammar .. especially if the description uses WYSIWIG style tools instead of a high level formatting language like LaTeX. This is basically why I hate Web based tools. They disable the *principal* advantage of Unix: the ease of writing micky mouse text processing scripts to manage data. In the real world, teams of people solve this problem by maintaining synchronisation by a lot of (generally very brain dead and rather stupid) hard work. Thus the original Wiki has some interesting stuff like an operator precedence table -- but it isn't maintained. OTOH .. SF not organising for Google to index the mailing lists is REALLY bad... someone should complain bitterly. It's bad enough them promoting the top download "GAIM" every month for no reason (it's already the top download .. what's the point?) I really have no answer :) -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Felix-language mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/felix-language
