On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 05:36:39PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, if anything it's actually more of an ancestor;
That's right. Quoting the original Markdown page[1]:
the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
[1] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ -- Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. 👱🏻 Jonathan Dowland ✎ j...@debian.org 🔗 https://jmtd.net
