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...imagine trying to write like this. It's essentially the opposite of what Markdown accomplished, which was taking a bunch of human conventions which were developed mostly out of ease of use (table formatting being the one which doesn't work well IMO) and adapting them so they can be parsed into nice text.
Whereas this takes the most awkward possible syntax and completely ruins what you're looking at.
This is an example on the main page:
...imagine trying to write like this. It's essentially the opposite of what Markdown accomplished, which was taking a bunch of human conventions which were developed mostly out of ease of use (table formatting being the one which doesn't work well IMO) and adapting them so they can be parsed into nice text.Whereas this takes the most awkward possible syntax and completely ruins what you're looking at.