Thread:Extension talk:ParserFunctions/Suggestion: new function ifnot/reply (5)

Wikitext is currently poor for sophisticated purposes. There are ways and ways to fix that. Scribunto is (though imho a nice programming language, as traditional ALGOL-style programming languages go) a good example of the poor fit between ALGOL-style programming and wikis, and sadly an example of the socially destructive trend toward isolating control away from the lay wiki community, on the far side of a linguistic and conceptual discontinuity where it becomes the province of a high priesthood. It looks great if you compare it only to the status quo ante, but looked at in the larger realm of possibilities it's leading in the wrong direction.