[Mediawiki-l] Re: easy html formatting?

[Rick DeNatale]

On 12/22/05, Jan Steinman <Jan at bytesmiths.com> wrote:

> I think Ward Cunningham was aware of this. Besides the inventor of
> wiki, he was also a Smalltalk pioneer and a HyperCard enthusiast. He
> could have made it more "HTML-like", or could have spent his time
> making an end-user HTML-entry system instead of wiki,

But that wouldn't be "the simplest thing that could possibly work," so

> he crafted
> wiki markup to fill a need that he saw as unfilled with HTML.

Oh how I miss those old late-night alcohol fueled discussions with
Ward at OOPSLA!

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Rick DeNatale

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