On Wednesday 24 December 2008 14:46:29 Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Nikola Smolenski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No, that would be a very bad solution. It would require that everyone
> > who works on MediaWiki has to learn that domain-specific language, which
> > would result in less people being able to work on MediaWiki.
>
> This is not inherently different from people having to learn what
> MediaWiki classes and so on do.  If it's a well-designed language, it
> will be as easy for people to pick up as alternative ways of writing
> the same info.

It is, as there exist various database abstraction classes, somewhat similar 
to each other, a lot of people have worked with. Add to that the benefits of 
your editor not able to highlight the code and no way to immediately see 
syntax errors and similar.

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