High praise for Markdown

[Lou Quillio]

Aaron Swartz wrote:

> At a party the other night, the author of a client-side GUI weblog

> editor with a WYSIWYG editor came up to me. 'Oh, Markdown,' he said.

> 'Would you believe it? My users are asking me for Markdown support!' I

> cheered. 'You cheer, perhaps, but what about me? What could they

> possibly want Markdown for when they already have WYSIWYG?'


One word, and it's Dean's.

Humanity.

LQ