On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 02:49:39AM +0100, Lars Aronsson wrote:
But you guys are all talking about creating a parser, the ultimate one, for which you really don't have any need. You were talking about this five years ago. You still haven't produced any useful parser. And you probably will discuss this five years from now.
"The current parser is a crawling horror, very difficult to maintain and impossible to extract for other purposes" seems like a perfectly serviceable motivation to me, and clearly, to Steve and some other people.
I gather that having a sufficiently clear spec to allow it to be implemented in a faster language than PHP for WMF would not be a bad thing either.
Cheers, -- jra