And he shouldn't know - but the wikitext as programming language is used only in the templates, not in the pages. (Should be used only there, at least.)
Rob Church wrote:
On 05/04/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/5/06, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
Don't blame me. I've always been against turning wikitext into a programming language.
Why?
Because the idea of wikitext is to make editing as simple as possible for Joe User who clicks Edit. Joe User who, perhaps, doesn't know what HTML is.
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