On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:51:12AM +0100, Timwi
wrote:
The vote therefore has a systemic bias towards
the programmers, but they
are not the intended audience. Also, most of the programmers
(apparently) vote on what they prefer (as opposed to what they think
unsavvy people might prefer).
There is no other way I can imagine that people seriously prefer
<math>x^2</math> over simple-and-quick [!x^2!] or [$x^2$] or whatever.
I think its just the opposite. Only perl programmers would prefer so
many special characters rather than words to delimit things.