On 10 November 2012 17:38, Jens Getreu <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2012 01:31:54 UTC+1 schrieb Lex Trotman: > >> >> Mea culpa, I've had an asciidoc patch for Geany for a while that gives >> the same functionality as rest. I've now made a pull request to add >> it to Geany >> https://github.com/geany/**geany/pull/78<https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/78>. >> >> > > Thanks :) > >> >> Many non-technical influences affect the popularity of languages and >> that applies to markup languages too. See >> http://lambda-the-ultimate.**org/node/497<http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/497>and >> a whole bunch of other >> such discussions on that site :) >> > > Yes. What is it that makes ReText so popular although AsciiDoc is > much better? > Possibly as simple as it being chosen for Python documentation making it somewhat widely used, and more docs are persuaded to use it "because Python does", incumbency is a strong position. > > In a way those ReText guys manage to respond better to the user's needs. > Do they? So why was Sphinx created? > What do they do differently? How do they create synergy? > > Or is it just a matter of resources? > > Its quite possibly a combination of such things, and simply individual decisions made by a developer to use a particular tool, maybe because it was the only one they knew about, and after that changing is hard and more are persuaded to use it "because xxx does" and so on. Cheers Lex > > > Jens > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asciidoc/-/_6G-aSAGK7MJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc?hl=en.
