Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 06:48:03PM +0100, Pieter Suurmond wrote:
I also dislike the METAwiki-concept a bit. When a systems fails to describe itself in its' own terms (a recursive definition thus) it is not good: all METAwiki-people should come down to regular wiki in my opinion. I am afraid some people will soon start a metameta..... (Or am I just a bit 'paranoid'). Let's stop forking, let's unite!
I've got other weird ideas: Write a complete standalone Wiki-server in pure C. (not depending on any mySQL, PHP, Apache-webserver, etc.). Once a proper definition of Wiki-syntax and semantcs cristalizes, this could be done (I could do it). I already started to describe wikisyntax with use of (metasyntax) ISO-EBNF on one of the Dutch pages... Well, I'll keep in touch, going to read that 'hackers-page' now...
All in pure C without even using SQL and HTTP server ?
Yes, I like Wiki that much, I'm considering the effort.
You want to make it slow, not portable, insecure, leak memory,
No, secure, leak-free, indeed hard to maintain and extend (I dislike maintainance anyway :-) but with possibly more efficient execution. I think C and C++ are the most portable languages of all, they are standardised and documented very well, etc. . . I'm just imagining myself a mini wiki-machine with as less as possible dependancies... More the design-once/update-never-approach, which is maybe not appropriate here, all right. Thanks for your opninion, Pieter. :-)
be hard to maintain and extend and to segfault at random or what ?
It doesn't seem like a good idea to me. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l