Markdown file extension

[John Gruber]

Allan Odgaard <29mtuz102 at sneakemail.com> wrote on 10/9/06 at 
7:12 PM:


>  I also wonder if JG views Markdown as a markup language 

>seeing how a lot of  constructs are not exactly based on 

>explicit markup.


Funny, but true. I don't really have a strong opinion about what
"markup language" means, but when I was trying to decide what to
call it, I thought to myself, "Well, it's not a markup language,
because the most important rules are implicit, so what would be
the opposite of 'markup'?..."

-J.G.