[Foundation-l] Why is the software out of reach of the community?

Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist at gmail.com
Tue Jan 13 17:38:09 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:28 PM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> How well do those concepts stand up when you have a lot of people
> copying and pasting code they don't really understand (writing an
> infobox from scratch is hard modifying an existing one less so)?

Pretty well, I suspect.  Of course, real languages are less tolerant
of error than templates (even PHP makes syntax errors fatal), but I
don't think the bar to entry would be huge.  You might also get more
real programmers willing to deal with complex templates instead of
avoiding them like the plague because the language is so hideous, as I
at least currently do.



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