On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 11:22 PM, Kim-Ee Yeoh
Could you say something about /why/ you make the suggestion? I, for one, would be happy to google and read links, but what's missing from that experience would be input from a fellow haskeller. In context. In real-time. On topic.
Pretty much the same reasons Richard O'Keefe has already said more vigorously: Markdown is ambiguous, and thus difficult to write good parsers for, and that makes it hard to write good text that does exactly what you want without struggling and clawing at it and eventually just using some dirty hack workaround you found on Google. Or changing your document's contents to handle a formatting bug/misdesign. People may say "well Markdown has won", in which case Markdown _has_ won. But there are still plenty of good alternatives out there that are widely used (RST is just my personal favorite). And there since there are good alternatives out there which don't have these problems, why not use them instead? I didn't really want to start a markup-language-flame-war... except that I'm glad that people are discussing it and thinking about these issues... So maybe I did. :-( Simon