On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Neil Harris<usenet(a)tonal.clara.co.uk> 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