[adamhyde]

hi

Argh. My reply got burned by the server downtime. Just to say I dont have anything against the shell and plain text- I produced (facilitated) the production of numerous books around this topic including http://www.flossmanuals.net/command-line/

Glad you like reading markdown. I don't think that is a majority position though and I see markdown being promoted to a larger community at times that really wouldn't find it useful or nice to use.

[godDLL]

Any plain-text based format is, in the end, maximally at least as readable as plain-text. Any kind of markup in it will generally diminish readability. Markdown is very close to being just plain text, but with a very short path to HTML markup -- you just start typing HTML in.

So yes, people will enjoy reading Markdown in at least as much as they do plain text. And yes, the implementation quirks will be annoying for anyone using it. But I don't see how all these add up to a larger argument against Markdown.