forking Markdown.pl?

[Shawn Medero]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Jacob Rus <jacobolus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Tomas Doran wrote:

>

> > John Gruber wrote:

>  >> Tomas Doran wrote:

>  >>

>  >>> I'm actively maintaining the CPAN modules Text::Markdown, and

>  >>> Text::MultiMarkdown, and longer term, I'd like these to become the

>  >>> canonical distribution.

>  >>

>  >> I despise what you've done with Text::Markdown, which is to more or

>  >> less make it an alias for MultiMarkdown, almost every part of which I

>  >> disagree with in terms of syntax additions.

>  >

>  > Wow, that's pretty strong language. I'm glad I'm provoking strong

>  > opinions, and it's nice to see you actively contributing to Markdown's

>  > direction ;)

>

>  It's harsh but reasonable language in my opinion.  If you are going to

>  make something which is not Markdown (i.e. has other bits of syntax not

>  specified in John's description of that language), then you should call

>  it by a name other than "Markdown".


Exactly. Microsoft was at least nice enough to call their heavily SVG
inspired markup language "XAML". (Ironically XAML is probably a better
definition of SVG at this point, because SVG has been bastardized into
a utility GUI framework by the mobile vendors. At least we still have
SVG "tiny".)

-s