Ok, I have to admit, I have no idea if this is an April fool's joke or not.  
Congratulations for demonstrating that April fools jokes can still be subtle
(whether intentionally or not!) -- [[Jon]]

> Having said all that, have you looked at erlang? Have you heard of couchdb?
> I'd strongly recommend looking at that. -- [[Jon]]

>> I've glanced at couchdb, but don't see how it would tie in with ikiwiki.
>> --[[Joey]] 


>>> It doesn't really. I recently (re-)read about couchdb and thought that
>>> what it was trying to do had some comparisons with the thinking going on
>>> in [[todo/structured_page_data]]. -- [[Jon]]

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I'm torn about this idea, if it's actually serious.  I'm very comfortable programming in Perl, and have written quite a few modules for IkiWiki, and it would be a huge pain to have to start from scratch all over again.
On the other hand, this could be a motivation for me to learn Haskell.  My only encounter with Haskell has been a brief time when I was using the Xmonad window manager, but it looks like an interesting language. Functional programming is cool.

--[[KathrynAndersen]]