Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Semanticist's cookbook

Is this a dumb idea? I'd like to create a semantic modeling wiki where people can describe various techniques for modeling different kinds of programs, programming languages, and programming language features mathematically. Sort of a clearinghouse or cookbook for semantics. It could feature links to literature, and various categorizations so that people could find recipes by following different paths. For example, a reader might discover the exception monad by alternatively searching for control features, or error handling, or denotational modeling, or monads, etc.

Perhaps a better-designed database would be more organized, but I think wikis are good for continuously reorganizing, as well as for community contribution.

The Semanticist's Cookbook. I like it!

Update: Stubbed at http://semanticscookbook.org.

Update: Maybe I'll install a wiki another time but I don't have time for this now.

2 comments:

Jacob Matthews said...

Sounds good to me. I've even got hosting if you want it, just drop me a line.

It's maybe worth pointing out that the twelf folks have their own wiki for a similar purpose, and that seems to work well for them.

Anonymous said...

maybe you could just use wikicities.com and set up the domain to point there.
Great idea, anyway.