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This is kind of a funny comment, markdown was designed specifically to be readable as-is, which is why so much of it’s syntax looks like conventional email and
by furyofantares 8y ago
This is kind of a funny comment, markdown was designed specifically to be readable as-is, which is why so much of it’s syntax looks like conventional email and other plain-text usages that predate it.
- throwaway123156 8y agoTrue, but markdown was meant to be readable for a markup language. Which is likely still less readable than something whose sole purpose is to present to humans, such as HTML/CSS.
- marssaxman 8y agoI never got the sense that markdown was even designed, per se - the original markdown.pl script, so far as I understand it, was not intended to implement a formal language at all; its attitude was pure descriptivism, simply rendering what the author thought of as "plain text" in a more typographically-pretty format.