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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 expr
by sph 9mo ago
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.
- Inityx 9mo ago> so we’ll basically reinvent Lisp expressions, but worse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
- bawolff 9mo agoIronically 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