[bryanlarsen]

I'm not so sure about the thesis of the blog post, I haven't used org very much. But ReST is so much better than the dominant wiki syntaxes in the Ruby world, it's not even funny. ReST actually had significant effort put into it's design, whereas Markdown was a quick hack Gruber designed just for himself and "thrown over the fence". Even so, it's better than the other common one, textile.

http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/peps/pep-0287.html