except gruber didn't "invent" it. he took the idea from dean allen, who developed "textile" in 2002 as "a humane web text generator". textile was used in mova

except gruber didn't "invent" it. he took the idea from dean allen, who developed "textile" in 2002 as "a humane web text generator". textile was used in movable type, the blogging software that gruber started with on daring fireball. he gave his system a clever name, which is important for marketing, but gruber did _not_ "invent" it. in today's lingo, he "rebranded" a great idea from somebody else. > https://medium.com/the-bower/markdown-considered-harmful-495ccfe24a52 https://medium.com/the-bower/markdown-considered-harmful-495... -bowerbird