[WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language

[wjhonson at aol.com]

 The language chosen will hopefully be as ENGLISH-like as possible, even it that means it requires more typing.? The hyper-complex and excessively structured codes of most languages make it difficult for the vast majority of our contributors to even try to make a break into them.

In addition to that, English-like languages are easier for programmers in other languages to pick up because they seem more sensible than learning a whole new set of obscure codewords and symbols.? A language that uses "AND" instead of "&", "+" or "[]".? A language that uses "NOT" instead of "-", "/" or "_".

That would be helpful.

Will Johnson





 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Thu, Jul 2, 2009 7:11 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] MediaWiki is getting a new programming language










On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Judson Dunn<cohesion at sleepyhead.org> wrote:
> It would replace the nightmare parserfunction language in the more
> complex templates. Here is a random example of one of those type:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Backlognav_inner&action=edit

The thing I find astonishing is that people are willing to work with
these templates and actually maintain them. I've coded regexes, tcl,
sh, prolog, haskell, C..., but I have absolutely no desire to get this
crap on my hands.

Anyone know if the people who work with these templates are
experienced coders, or just wikipedians who have gotten into it as a
pleasant sunday afternoon mindfuck?

Steve

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