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Why Markdown Sucks

Joe Armstrong · 21 Mar 2016

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  1. Our reading

    Markdown is terrible because it has no standard and no two converters agree.

    Their wordsMarkdown really sucks, I'll grant you that it's useful, there's no doubt about that but the lack of a standard, and the fact that no two markdown convertors do the same thing is terrible.

  2. Our reading

    LaTeX is far better than Markdown.

    Their wordsLaTeX is better than markdown by far, but it has a fundamental flaw.

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