Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Hyper Perl HyperPerl is a variant of WikiWikiWeb inspired by DonKnuth's LiterateProgramming. It is supported by two programs, both offered as cgi script...
wiki base -- browse & edit the hypertext source
hp -- extract a straight program by traversing the source
The extractor defines the rules of hyper perl. Right now it simply grabs preformatted text. [How is a Here file represented?] Links found in that text refer to nodes that should be processed in advance of the current node since they probably refer to ...
header comments
constant definitions
subroutine definitions
The extractor will soon offer forms to control its expansion. This will provide ...
fill-in-the-blanks for parameterization
check-boxes for conditional configuration