It's an uninformed defense of a fundamentally incorrect position; no wonder most people here disagree with it. People here know that a language is syntax and s

It's an uninformed defense of a fundamentally incorrect position; no wonder most people here disagree with it. People here know that a language is syntax and semantics, he seems to be arguing that semantics aren't important, or that ambiguity in semantics is good? It only makes sense if your Markdown never has to be processed in any way (e.g. converted to HTML). Which ok, maybe there are some use cases for that, but they are dominated by the ones where Markdown is transformed into another representation. That requires semantics. > This gives it the rare characteristic of being intuitive to understand and use, but not necessarily easy (or even unambiguously possible) to implement Ambiguity does not make anything easy to understand or use. Not possible to implement is not a feature of any language.