On 8/9/06, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Heh! That's how I wrote [[Envoy (WordPerfect)]] and [[Smart Display]]. I saw both terms mentioned on Groklaw, didn't know what they meant so looked them up on Wikipedia (it's already a fantastically useful computer terminology guide - hence why the [[FOLDOC]] maintainer saw it and promptly wondered whether he should continue with FOLDOC at all. Since they didn't exist, I promptly researched them and wrote the articles. This is where a lot of my articles come from.
- d.
Did he decide to continue? I have to agree, it does seem kind of pointless: Wikipedia is GFDL as well, contains many of the sources FOLDOC draws upon, has inherently better technical facilities (not just in linking to fuller encyclopedic entries on terms but in general), better articles etc.
But I've always wondered something about FOLDOC; does its name come from the foldr and foldl operators in functional languages?
~maru Shock! Quelle horreur! We don't have [[foldl]] or [[foldr]]!