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Am I the only one who is utterly confused by what I am looking at?

by cift 8y ago

mcjiggerlog 8y ago
Nope - no idea
LeonM 8y ago
You're not alone
nine_k 8y ago
Did reading the text help you any? Did the word "wiki" make sense in the context? (I suppose "lambda", "lisp", and "s-expression" are not very familiar to you?) No snark here, I just try to understand how do different people read and understand a copy like this.
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  On mobile I see no reference to any of those words or help. I also have no idea what's going on.
- cift 8y ago
  Not sure where you're reading this. All I can see is this page http://b2b3.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start http://b2b3.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start
  - nine_k 8y ago
    Ah, the page I saw initially was pretty self-explanatory, a wiki page describing things like `{b{i{Hello World}}}` and all the way to introducing basic Lisp constructs. It is now taken offline due to too many "stupid people", as the last line says, apparently due to them vandalizing it :( The menu which is shown now is much less helpful indeed.
    - martyalain 8y ago
      Thanks for your help. The site is still alive.
WhitneyLand 8y ago
tldr; - Think of Wikipedia. Even though it’s a web site with html, people who make edits do not create html. Instead they edit this nasty quasi-text document bearing a vague resemblance to markdown. This seems to be intended for a similar purpose in wikis. post tldr - The terrible thing was this was painful to use and early on wikis had almost no structured data. So you have incredible amounts of useful information that mostly cannot be leveraged or processed efficiently because it’s a living nightmare to parse. Over time things have improved. They added a wysiwyg editor so you don’t have to look at it. They’ve incrementally added ways to allow for documents and data to be more structured and parsable. Not sure how far along everything is at present.
- cift 8y ago
  I see. Would be nice if there was some kind of about page explaining this

Am I the only one who is utterly confused by what I am looking at?

by cift 8y ago

Am I the only one who is utterly confused by what I am looking at?

mcjiggerlog 8y ago

Nope - no idea

LeonM 8y ago

You're not alone

nine_k 8y ago

Did reading the text help you any? Did the word "wiki" make sense in the context? (I suppose "lambda", "lisp", and "s-expression" are not very familiar to you?) No snark here, I just try to understand how do different people read and understand a copy like this.

Waterluvian 8y ago
On mobile I see no reference to any of those words or help. I also have no idea what's going on.
cift 8y ago
Not sure where you're reading this. All I can see is this page http://b2b3.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start http://b2b3.free.fr/lambdaspeech/?view=start
- nine_k 8y ago
  Ah, the page I saw initially was pretty self-explanatory, a wiki page describing things like `{b{i{Hello World}}}` and all the way to introducing basic Lisp constructs. It is now taken offline due to too many "stupid people", as the last line says, apparently due to them vandalizing it :( The menu which is shown now is much less helpful indeed.
  - martyalain 8y ago
    Thanks for your help. The site is still alive.

WhitneyLand 8y ago

tldr; - Think of Wikipedia. Even though it’s a web site with html, people who make edits do not create html. Instead they edit this nasty quasi-text document bearing a vague resemblance to markdown. This seems to be intended for a similar purpose in wikis. post tldr - The terrible thing was this was painful to use and early on wikis had almost no structured data. So you have incredible amounts of useful information that mostly cannot be leveraged or processed efficiently because it’s a living nightmare to parse. Over time things have improved. They added a wysiwyg editor so you don’t have to look at it. They’ve incrementally added ways to allow for documents and data to be more structured and parsable. Not sure how far along everything is at present.

cift 8y ago
I see. Would be nice if there was some kind of about page explaining this