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Description: Tales from a heretic priest of the Machine God
Tales from a heretic priest of the Machine God
Wikis suck because they (as of yet) are never worth the additional complexity over regular web pages. They have a special syntax that can’t quite do exactly what web pages and links can do. They make some things easier, but others harder, the primary example being linking to a page within the wiki and a page “external” to the wiki.
Another major problem is that they are almost always focus on using templating languages rather than complete programming languages. This makes working with data sources (json, xml, recent statistics) a pain because the document is dead as soon as it is written. There is no way to express template generation within the language itself.
Daniel X's Artisanal Internets
Ruby, Rails, Web2.0 | Experiences with Ruby and Rails, Web2.0 and other development technologies