[MLton] MLton wiki

Brent Fulgham bfulg@pacbell.net
Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:16:28 -0700 (PDT)


--- Stephen Weeks <sweeks@sweeks.com> wrote:
> > (Although, a bit of a phyrric victory to use an
> > OCaml powered wiki.)
> 
> I don't really mind that.  Whatever tool works best.
> I point out that we do use the fine hevea/hacha 
> tools, which are built with OCaml.
> 
> I haven't done any research into this yet, but my
> guess is that I wouldn't use a home-grown wiki like 
> the OCaml one.  I would go for something more widely

> used and standard, like the MediaWiki
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
> 
> which is used for the biggest wiki of them all, the
> wikipedia.  This isn't gonna happen until after the 
> release, though, and there is plenty of time for 
> discussion.

I think it would be nice to include an SML Cookbook,
perhaps modeled on something like the Scheme Cookbook
(http://schemecookbook.org).

It's sort of fun to write the little recipes, and I
find them to be useful as a way of forcing yourself to
investigate some aspect of the language you hadn't had
to deal with previously.

-Brent