http://xkcd.com/927/ -- D. Richard Hipp Sent from phone - Excuse brevity On Sep 28, 2014 12:46 PM, "Stephan Beal" <sgb...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Natacha Porté <nata...@instinctive.eu> > wrote: > >> I completely share the opinion above, except I'm afraid you have >> misunderstood the goal of CommonMark: it's not about unifying or >> standardizing wiki format, only unifying Markdown. >> > > i understand that, but there are several competing dialects already, and > no truly overwhelming reason to consolidate them. If the benefits were 100% > clear and compelling, it would already have replaced the other dialects. > > >> But this is still about disambiguating "Markdown", without looking at >> > any other wiki or markup format. >> > > If it is incompatible with _any_ existing Markdown dialects, then it is > effectively a competing format. If there are over 2 dozen slightly > different implementations, what are the real chances of getting those two > dozen projects to consolidate on one standard? And then what are the > chances that all of them will change their parsers to all work identically > (which seems like quite a waste of effort, to have 20+ implementations > which all work identically). > > i still predict utter failure ;). > > -- > ----- stephan beal > http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ > http://gplus.to/sgbeal > "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of > those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf > > _______________________________________________ > fossil-users mailing list > fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org > http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users > >
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