* Amir E. Aharoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-28 23:00]: > The popularity of Wikipedia made Media-Wiki syntax the de-facto > standard. It's not perfect, but please don't reinvent the wheel > (even though it's a PHP wheel).
I plead not guilty. Markdown is nothing new, and it has half a dozen implementations in multiple languages already (the canonical one is written in Perl 5, btw). It is very popular in the weblog world, but because the implementations are not tied to a particular webapp, it gets used in many other contexts as well. I write all of my plaintext files in Markdown; which isn’t saying much, because the syntax very much looks just like email. Noone other than Mediawiki uses the Mediawiki syntax. I posit that the reason is that that syntax blows chunks. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
