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The principle was around much longer than Python -- it just happens that the Python language is also designed with usability in mind. Perl... well, perl was created with convenience in mind -- convenience of particular persons who were already used to tools like grep and awk -- and convenience with particular tasks, especially text processing. It's a great language, very terse and quick to write in -- unfortunately it's also pretty hard to learn. We want Creole to be easy to learn in the first place, even if it means an additional character typed here and there occasionally. Look at the image links -- they are very verbose. One could make them much shorter by just adding a third argument to normal links or to images. But then it would be impossible to guess.
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On the other hand, we leave a lot of wiggle room and flexibility of the spec -- for developers. We know that developing a wiki engine is hard already. We know that many of the engines being developed are created specifically to experiment, among other things, also with markup. We believe that the developers are experienced and knowledgeable enough to make the decisions -- after all they need to make the same kinds of decisions with other parts of the engine, not related to the markup. We don't expect each and every user to be an usability expert.
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Well, ok, I write "we" but in fact it's my opinion, based partially also on the [[Goals]] and on some principles I believe in. In particular, I think that Jef Raskin was right in his book, Humane Interface, at least as far as "common user" goes. The book is not available online, but you can see the principles summarized on his son's site: http://humanized.com/about/
I hope this helps to reach a good solution, rather than introduces confusion and distraction.
-- RadomirDopieralski, 2007-Nov-14
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