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You're right, Dan. I really ought to stop recommending TWiki. <br>
<nop>_It was_ <nop>*by far* the best thing alive when I
put it up 4 years ago at a former employer. I did the ugly task of
forcing people to use BumpyWords. (tsk,tsk, I'm editing your doc! do
it right!) Hindsight, I think it caught on because I wrote 90% of
everything for 2 years and my techs could search for and maybe even
*find* useful info instead of phkng calling me all day.<br>
TWiki for me was simply a great way to write quick stuff quickly and to
publish more format-intensive stuff consistently. then there's, mm,
LDAP Plugin. Search the dreckry from yer browser? The TWiki core
developers are very consistent and conservative. Good for them, I
think, but wikked little tools (perl tools) like that one make me wanna
take these guys seriously. <br>
I still don't know why perl is a strike against, tho, or how TWiki is
any more difficult to install and configure than any mySQL/PHP thing.
I can put up a TWiki in about 20 minutes.. Mm, now I should go back and
read my first paragraph again. And get proficient at mySQL and PHP.<br>
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<font color="#6633ff">perl is probably the worst language ever
written.. and the most useful.</font> I can't find the quote!<br>
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Dan Rue wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I just have to respond when twiki is mentioned. I think someone
recommended it a few messages ago (deleted already). As a user and
admin who is stuck on twiki, I have a few criticisms.
The way I see it is thus: twiki was one of if not the first wiki
implimentation. That's great, way to be a leader. However, strike one,
it's perl. Strike two, it's complicated to install, set up, and use
compared to modern wikis. Strike three, it's syntax is horrid. Wiki's
have come a long way. Don't make the mistake of going wiht twiki if
you're doing a fresh wiki install today.
I'm glad you found drupal and like it. drupal and wiki's solve
different problems (we run both at work internally *sigh*). For wikis,
i recommend mediawiki (think: wikipedia) and dokuwiki (not much
experience but I hear good things).
Dan
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