Comment on Wikipedia: SandboxparentComments−sph7moDay 1: we’ll adopt a simple markup language because our users are not programmersDay 2: our users have complicated needs so we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worse.Day N: whatever this markup language is——I’ve seen this happen so many times it’s not even funny anymore. Well, at least it’s not YAML.−bawolff7moIronically it wasn't even intentional. Wikipedia users discovered a way to create an if statement by themselves, originally there was no conditionals.Anyways, now a days you can use lua, so most of the wikisyntax is just glue code calling a lua program−Inityx7moso we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worsehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
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Day 1: we’ll adopt a simple markup language because our users are not programmers
Day 2: our users have complicated needs so we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worse.
Day N: whatever this markup language is
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I’ve seen this happen so many times it’s not even funny anymore. Well, at least it’s not YAML.
Ironically it wasn't even intentional. Wikipedia users discovered a way to create an if statement by themselves, originally there was no conditionals.
Anyways, now a days you can use lua, so most of the wikisyntax is just glue code calling a lua program
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule