Sure, if adding symbols to text is enough, why do more? It's bending perhaps history of mankind in my book a little too much, saying the author of Markdown has

Sure, if adding symbols to text is enough, why do more? It's bending perhaps history of mankind in my book a little too much, saying the author of Markdown has discovered that and not lets say, someone else the "one or other" millennia earlier. And writing on the computer is commonly the least ergonomic form of writing at all.