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c.l.c, C and programming
I began reading/posting to the comp.lang.c newsgroup in 2005, became more selective during 2006 and in 2007 I have become a very occasional reader. Prior to reading comp.lang.c I hadn't investigated the provisions of the C Standard although I'd always considered portability to be important. I've been programming on and off in C since 1995, although never as a paid professional. Most of my paid professional programming has been in Borland Delphi, but I've used a few other languages professionally (and more in the course of studies and spare time, notably PHP in recent years).
The idea of a comp.lang.c wiki seems very worthwhile to me and helping to plan, develop, add content to and administer it is a means of contributing to a newsgroup community from which I've gained a lot of insight.
A vision: avoiding the common wiki criticism
My other interest in this wiki is as a test-bed for developing a middle-ground approach to counter the common criticism that nothing in the traditional wiki model guarantees the casual reader that otherwise legitimate content has not recently been subtly vandalised.
I have written a voting extension for this wiki which requires further integration before it fulfils the complete vision that I have for it, however I don't know when I will return to complete it. At present it allows for automated election and demotion of a user to a group. In future I would like to be able to associate a group with a particular set of pages and to support a process of page review by vote of elected reviewers, leading to a particular version of each page being preferred and marked for casual viewers as "most recently reviewed page version" (it would be shown by default).
Currently working on
Non-wiki tasks elsewhere.
To do
Support for per-namespace copyright, as well as a specific Code namespace with per-page copyright within which all code blocks will be housed.
Contact
You can contact me through my home page.
