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>It was much easier to write parsers for though. Most of the BBCode tags could be rendered with simple regex substitutions. Nevermind. Let's not bring BBCode b
by contravariant 7y ago
>It was much easier to write parsers for though. Most of the BBCode tags could be rendered with simple regex substitutions.
Nevermind. Let's not bring BBCode back.
- laumars 7y agoOn the whole I'd agree. When markdown is done right it's pretty awesome. However I'd still take BBcode over buggy half implemented markdown parsers like the one we have on HN. At least [i] is a less common token than * -- which leads to no end of edits when I've absent-mindedly emphasised something that should have been bullet pointed. ...but yes, I do agree that markdown is definitely better when it's done right.
- CarlRJ 7y agoOn second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.