2003-08-21»
purplewiki»
Okay, this is fairly ingenious. Here’s a wiki spin-off which places small purple permalinks at the bottom of each paragraph, so that you can refer to them elsewhere. I was wondering how they deal with matching the right permalinks to paragraphs that have changed (do some sort of ingenious diff? Some weird Xanadu-derived algorithm?). Then I played around, and I realised – they just use the Wiki nature. The program sticks in a permalink whenever it sees a paragraph without one. It appears in the text itself as “{nid0}”. Wiki editors choose where it should go.
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freak-out!»
Sorry about the not-blogging. To be honest, the response to that Perl vs Python deliberation rather freaked me out. It wasn’t terribly well thought-out, yet was followed by dozens of smart responses by people who I assumed spent their spare time simulating 1024×1024 cellular automata in their heads, or inventing a new form of anthrax and then devising the antidote – not reading me. It’s a bit like mumbling into your dictaphone and then discovering a little wire that leads out of it into Broadcasting House. I got the Fear.
I promise to be more slapdash.
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