[fsckboy]

you're complaining so this is a good place for my complaint. coming at this from another angle, I think "the unix way" is to write your recipe so it looks like a recipe written for a human; but be careful to be rigidly precise in following a uniform format and then command line tools/scripts can parse the recipe to create an ingredients list, double the recipe, etc.

to your point, add structure/features/"coding standards" as you need for automatic processing, but otherwise you have a perfectly written recipe to whatever standards you hold.

rather than unix, what I see up and down this page is Dave Cutler slicing and dicing of data to the point of incomprehensibility. You know how you guys all loved markdown so much that you've embraced it and are now adding so many features that make it as unreadable as html? don't do that again and again, learn not to do it.

(btw I have cooked extensively and at somewhat high levels of precision (tricky sauces, souffles etc)