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by throw0101c 378 days ago
> (1) it's cleartext and therefore very good as a measure against vendor lock-in and (2) it has, to some extent, dampened the rampant "not-invented-here"-esqe tendency to use proprietary formats.

Also covered by AsciiDoc.

"Compare AsciiDoc and Markdown": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27744509