[Wikipedia-l] Re: Extension syntax vote begins

Tue Apr 6 23:37:53 UTC 2004

On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0530, Arvind Narayanan wrote:
> 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.

I'm a Perl programmer and I prefer <math>.