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Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by the_af on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:06PM (#34507417)
What's puzzling is that the creator of Markdown wants it like this, and actively resisted endorsing an official standard. He got into a fight with Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror / StackOverflow because of this.
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Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by eduction on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:58PM (#34508292)
He didn’t like when CommonMark was named “Standard Markdown” or when it was renamed “Common Markdown:”

https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

It also sounds like he ignored an invitation to join the effort to create what became CommonMark.

Since that was as close as anyone came to standardizing, ya it seems reasonable to conclude he’s fine with the ambiguities.

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Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by the_af on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:15PM (#34508608)
Yes, that's the conversation I meant.

Gruber got irritated by even attempting to get his opinion on this effort. Very, very weird.

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Re:On Markdown in Java documentation comments by avgcorrection on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:11PM (#34511976)
Should have called it Common AppleFan.
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