On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Neil Harris<[email protected]> wrote: > The MediaWiki template language survives for the same reason. This is > not to say that it's perfect, or even very good: but it works, has a > large installed base of legacy code, and general availability of the > appropriate skills in the existing base of "programmers", and is just > good enough to serve its purpose, and therefore survives on for the same > reasons as above.
Erm, the MediaWiki template language survives because it has a monopoly. There is no alternative. It doesn't really matter how bad it is - there is nothing users could switch to. Steve _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
