Parsing is but 1/3 of compiling. Markup languages are not generally thought of as programming languages, but maybe that's an archaic view. At any rate, 90% of

Parsing is but 1/3 of compiling. Markup languages are not generally thought of as programming languages, but maybe that's an archaic view. At any rate, 90% of the material in this thread is way overkill if all one wants to do is parse Markdown.