On 14/08/06, Edward Z. Yang edwardzyang@thewritingpot.com wrote:
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Rob Church wrote:
Rob Church
Rob! You're back! :-)
Not quite, see mediawiki-l archive. But I can't resist making a tasteless comment and winding up an explosive situation once in a while. Or something.
But then, if it doesn't *hurt* in the short term, and someone has the balls to hack a few test implementations and ideas together, good for them.
Hmm... so the core MediaWiki developers had nothing to do with this?
We still have those? No, I was under the impression we were going to do sensible things like formalise the parser specification and stuff before we got onto that. At least, that's what our CTO advised and explained to me, and I agreed. But if the President has given his Orders...
The rationale behind the statement I made above was, "Proof of concept doesn't hurt. Ideas, thoughts - scribbled notes on how something might be done...it all saves time and patent applications for Wheel 2.0 later on, doesn't it?
Rob Church