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The cost of moving existing systems to a new light markup language outweighs the burden of Markdown backwards compatibility.
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- John MacFarlane by American philosopher of language and logic at UC Berkeley…
the burdens of maintaining backwards compatibility are light in comparison with the enormous practical costs of moving existing systems to a new light markup language.
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↗Beyond Markdownjohnmacfarlane.net
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