[Oberon] Reservations about source text in a wikibook.

[peter at easthope.ca]

An idea inspired by a message from Bernhard Treutwein.

A possible concept is 'a source text documents an algorithm or 
assembly of algorithms'.  If a wiki is a good means to maintain a 
document then, as special case, a wiki is a good means to maintain a 
source text.  Is a version control system--Subversion, Git, etc.--a 
special case of a wiki? No; but some aspects are shared.  Interesting 
topic.

One complaint I have about WikiMedia is that the comparison displays 
the markup of each page rather than the view as rendered in the 
browser. Seems both of these views should be available.  A possible 
suggestion for WikiMedia.

Regards,                 ... Lyall E.
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