Moin,
On Thursday 06 April 2006 14:40, Stephen Forrest wrote:
On 4/5/06, 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?
Aside from the issue of simplicity which has already been mentioned, there's the issue that as the language gets bigger, user-contributed bugs become more numerous and subtle.
Exactly, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a distributed programming contest, whose ouput accidentily looks like an encyclopedia :)
Best wishes,
Tels