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

[Matthew Brown]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 10:09 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Hm. That "crap" seems to have worked quite well for a few years now.

A function, I think, of the desire for programmability, rather than
the qualities of the language.

-Matt