Syntax Questions

Tom Humiston tom at jumpingrock.net
Mon Jul 21 12:23:20 EDT 2008


I think the answers you're getting here will make more sense if you re-
read John Gruber's description of Markdown's history and purpose, at
daringfireball.net.


On 21 Jul 2008, at 6:32 AM, Jurgens du Toit wrote:


> I mean that "difficulty to test" must not impair the development

> process.

> Yes, sure, don't roll out software that hasn't been tested, but, as

> Markdown

> is issued under an open source license, there's who knows how many

> people

> who might want the untested functionality, and who will be willing

> to test

> it, and probably improve on it as well. Me included.

>

> J

>

> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de

> >

> wrote:

>

>> * Jurgens du Toit <jurgens.dutoit at gmail.com> [2008-07-21 09:05]:

>>> I don't think that if something is difficult to test, it

>>> shouldn't be implemented.

>>

>> You mean it's fine for people to give you software that might or

>> might not work, and they don't know which? What happens if you

>> report a bug and they can't test whether their bugfix breaks

>> previously working stuff?

>>

>> Regards,

>> --

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