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For context, posted after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677161
by cl42 7y ago
For context, posted after this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677161 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22677161
- dang 7y agoAnd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675165 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675165. This is getting complicated!
- geerlingguy 7y agoWhat a tangled web, haha.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI posted this article on my blog mostly because it seems that an anti-Markdown post pops up on HN every 6-9 months, and instead of writing out a comment saying why "just because it is not formally specified doesn't mean it's a bad choice" every time, I can now refer to the blog post :P Seriously, checking my post history I've noticed there have been similar posts saying don't use Markdown but use [asciidoc|latex|rst|etc] over and over through the years. Meanwhile since teams use their own favorite text format, many organizations end up maintaining separate docs for end users in Google Docs, a Word document, or some other system because the non-engineers on the team don't want to spend time learning the ins-and-outs of the special documentation format.
- JdeBP 7y agoWhat you have is nigh-on a Frequently Given Answer, were it not that it is a diary entry. (-: * http://jdebp.uk./FGA/ http://jdebp.uk./FGA/
- sdegutis 7y agoThey pop up this often because it's an unpopular opinion, so it's a fun pastime to read explanations for these things. But that also implies that it's not a serious threat to the common belief, otherwise it wouldn't need to pop up so often. That's my theory anyway.