[indymike]

> C++ the computer will generally catch your errors while with Markdown it will never catch your errors.

Conveying meaning at the bitwise operator level is a different thing than applying emphasis to a few words in a sentence with bolding or embedding a hyperlink in a document.

[chrismorgan]

I’ve frequently seen mistakes in Markdown syntax that lead to content that has at best partially-broken formatting, at worst losing some of the content, sometimes even in ways that aren’t obvious.

Markup versus computer code is of course not exactly the same, but the nature of the mistakes—tokens in places they’re not supposed to be, and such—would generally lead to a syntax error in C++.

[indymike]

Yeah, the problem with markdown lies with its simplicity and outside of links, trying to be mostly like old-ascii email text before HTML email. That's also its strength. I was very much a fan of RST until markdown took over, and it reminded me:

Good enough beats perfect.