* 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
