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To add to that, Markdown was created to scratch one person's itch with no real desire to support a wider community. It was put online and other people liked it
by sitharus 12y ago
To add to that, Markdown was created to scratch one person's itch with no real desire to support a wider community. It was put online and other people liked it and modified it, but the original site doesn't have any of this.
- baddox 12y agoIs that a correct history of Markdown? It certainly seems to have been designed to be easily readable and writable for laypeople.
- nine_k 12y agoAFAICT Markdown codified a lot of best practices from ASCII emails and forums of years past (e.g. 20th century's). What looks like careful design may be as well a result of a long evolution.