[Wikitech-l] Re: Stupid Mediawiki Tricks: logical templates

Phil Boswell wrote: For quite some time (1973-1993 or so), the Unix/Linux commands test(1), true(1) and false(1) were stand-alone programs that required the fork(2) and exec(2) of a new process, after which the shell would check their exit status. In modern Unix shells (such as bash(1)) these are built-in commands, which makes their frequent use in scripts a lot more efficient. Why not give up this {{{if}}} template craziness and implement a basic set of programming logic operators (if, for, foreach, while, switch, ...) in the wiki syntax? Programming logic embedded in textual content is well-known from languages like PHP.