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		hboon on April 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t Make Me Write HTML Markdown is for writing content. Content creators shouldn't need to write their content (blogs, news, whatever) in HTML. Markdown is for that and only that.

dasil003 on April 15, 2009 [–]

I also like it for readmes on github, FWIW.

hboon on April 15, 2009 | [–]

Right. Any (those I can think of at least) type of content that doesn't require specialized formatting (math symbols, etc) like READMEs, blogs, journals, CMS content, etc.

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