* Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:03:01 
-0400]:
> The message here is that wikimarkup is not intended to be a
> programming language. If you find yourself asking for more programming
> language features the shortcoming is in your expectations not in the
> software. It's already gone too far …  What we've got now is the moral
> equivalent of brainfuck but without the elegance.
>
It's already a programming language, though a bit limited one and not 
very well readable.

> People have been asking these features for years. True. But thats also
> good evidence that they can live a while longer without it.
>
A good built-in language would expand the usage of MediaWiki beyond 
Wikipedia (for example with SMW/SF extensions), though it's probably has 
no use to Wikimedia Foundation.
Dmitriy

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