* Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com [Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:03:01 -0400]:
The message here is that wikimarkup is not intended to be a programming language. If you find yourself asking for more programming language features the shortcoming is in your expectations not in the software. It's already gone too far … What we've got now is the moral equivalent of brainfuck but without the elegance.
It's already a programming language, though a bit limited one and not very well readable.
People have been asking these features for years. True. But thats also good evidence that they can live a while longer without it.
A good built-in language would expand the usage of MediaWiki beyond Wikipedia (for example with SMW/SF extensions), though it's probably has no use to Wikimedia Foundation. Dmitriy