Comments on: Wiki:Authoring :: Perl:Programming http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/08/wikiauthoring-perlprogramming/ edupunk, elearning, socialware, rhetoric, discourse analysis, instructional technology, keene nh, other stuff Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:53:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/08/wikiauthoring-perlprogramming/#comment-556 Mike Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:40:44 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/08/wikiauthoring-perlprogramming/#comment-556 I wonder -- there's a community thing going on with automation scripts (the IBM project CoScripter is a wiki driven community I believe: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter). But it is surprising that there aren't more prominent scripting wikis -- and maybe the system you describe would get us there --- if editing your script and posting it in the wiki were the same thing, and if you inherited a great environment by doing it that way --- I wonder — there’s a community thing going on with automation scripts (the IBM project CoScripter is a wiki driven community I believe: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/coscripter).

But it is surprising that there aren’t more prominent scripting wikis — and maybe the system you describe would get us there — if editing your script and posting it in the wiki were the same thing, and if you inherited a great environment by doing it that way —

]]> By: Stephen Downes http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/08/wikiauthoring-perlprogramming/#comment-553 Stephen Downes Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:13:20 +0000 http://mikecaulfield.com/2007/11/08/wikiauthoring-perlprogramming/#comment-553 ... all of which of course makes me think of wiki coding. Put the Perl into a wiki, allow people to make changes. Set it up for testing where the code runs on a virtual machine, so there's no risk. Let one page 'include' another page as Perl modules, for larger programs (and to ensure compatibility). … all of which of course makes me think of wiki coding. Put the Perl into a wiki, allow people to make changes. Set it up for testing where the code runs on a virtual machine, so there’s no risk. Let one page ‘include’ another page as Perl modules, for larger programs (and to ensure compatibility).

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