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[unbibium]

It's geek-out time. This is a cool program.

Here's one in PHP, on a page that runs that very program, it seems.

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[subbes]

I.... um...

Oh, dammit, perl is nothing like C.

It's a html page editing script, right?

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Perl is nothing like C. It's usually very cryptic, but the code I linked to is actually quite well-written. Soon they'll make a tiny Wiki in Python (http://www.python.org/)... it'd make a great example. Don't get me started.

A Wiki (http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki) is, quite simply, a web page where every page has an "Edit This Page" link at the bottom, so that anyone may make contributions to it. Yes, anyone. It works (http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhyWikiWorks), even in public.

[subbes]

Allow me just ot say:

I'm scared.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Hey, I said it was geek-out time.

I think I'll port this to Parrot (http://www.perl.com/pub/2001/04/01/parrot.htm). Where's my book (http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/)?

Wiki, Wiki, who's got the Wiki?

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Dave Chess tried to get us excited about those a couple years ago. It was fun and all, but, like, try and carry on any kind of useful conversation with it?

Re: Wiki, Wiki, who's got the Wiki?

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

I dunno. It's the concept that appeals to me most. And also, what goes on in a good Wiki can't really be called "conversation", can it?

I'm surprised the KiboSphere never really totally took off. Probably because a good Wiki warrants regular reading, and nobody updates KiboSphere anymore.

In fact, there's one wiki (http://www.ruby.ch/cgi-bin/rw.cgi?cmd=view;name=top) where the only changes (http://www.ruby.ch/cgi-bin/rw.cgi?cmd=view;name=recent) have been my own, with a starting project I soon got bored with: in the tradition of old jive filters, a JeffK (http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/) filter for text.