2009/7/3 Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com>:
> {{qif}} was being used massively, even if the majority of the community
> didn't know about it (or care). It supported their work and allowed them
> to do the things with templates that they needed in articles. I would
> argue these complex templates came from the community's needs.
Your last sentence is key here. Templates that present a (relatively)
simple interface but have complex plumbing to do cool things are
much-wanted and much-needed.
However, the ParserFunctions language sucks because it was made up as
it goes along and resembles nothing so much as an [[esoteric
programming language]]. A better language will make it easier to
program templates that do complex things with a simple interface.
- d.
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