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> Markdown is the hardest thing he's ever worked on If that's even remotely true, I hope he never touches any piece of code in his life again. For god's sake,
by frowaway001 12y ago
> Markdown is the hardest thing he's ever worked on
If that's even remotely true, I hope he never touches any piece of code in his life again.
For god's sake, just look at his implementation: "Hacked together after a night of binge drinking" would be the perfect description of it.
- Steko 12y agoPuff your chest out all you want, call me back when you've made a bigger contribution and no longer have to hide behind 'froaway001'.
- frowaway001 12y agoI'm quite comfortable with the contributions I have made, thanks.
- jacobolus 12y agoThe hard part is figuring out what the format should look like (a labor of love that he spent months if not years on, iteratively refining), not the implementation (which is a hacky ball of perl).
- matthiasv 12y agoThat format is essentially (sans the link syntax) what plaintext email has been looking like for decades. I don't get the whole praise for Gruber of "inventing" something novel. It's not.