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Among other things, HN was a test case for programming in Arc, and mostly by one programmer: pg. So the likely reason that HN does not allow Markdown is becaus
by noblethrasher 12y ago
Among other things, HN was a test case for programming in Arc, and mostly by one programmer: pg.
So the likely reason that HN does not allow Markdown is because there is/was no Arc implementation of Markdown.
- mqsiuser 12y agoIt is not that there is no markdown / formatting allowed. It just is, that it is so very very limited: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc Esp. the "no links in the text-field, but in the comments" It is successful :-) pg knows It would be easy to implement some more primitives (and make them translate into HTML) It MUST be intensional
- noblethrasher 12y agoThat logic doesn't quite work in this case. As of 131 day ago, pg was the main programmer on HN. So, while implementing Markdown is easy, it is also the case that: (1) He had very little time (2) Markdown was just one potentially easy feature among many other potentially easy feature. (3) As he stated many times, his focus was on reducing the amount of harmful comments.