2022-08-15 UTC
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[tantek] Markdown << Criticism: the fact that Markdown actually has its own file extension .md rather than "just" using plain text (and .txt) is a strong clue that it has in practice readily diverged from its original "key design goal" of "_readability_, that the language be readable as-is, without looking like it has been marked up with tags or formatting instructions" (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown#History) so much so that