* Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> [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