Historical Notes

Historical Notes

The wiki used to hold a broad mix of project aims, design sketches, grammar notes, assembler details, build notes, BIF lists, Unicode experiments, and VM internals.

That made sense while the project was still collecting ideas, but it became confusing once the repository gained better as-built documentation. Old wiki technical pages could look authoritative even when they described prototypes, future plans, or implementation details that had since changed.

Current Policy

• The wiki keeps project vision, direction, and historical context.
• Current technical details live in the repository.
• Old technical wiki pages are pruned from the live wiki rather than maintained in parallel.
• Their history remains available through the wiki git repository.

Why This Helps

Readers get a cleaner split:

• the wiki explains why cREXX exists and where it is going
• the release docs explain how the current system works
• the source tree and tests remain the final authority for implementation facts