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Comment by saosebastiao | Hacker News Reader

I'm super excited that JGM (of Pandoc) is heading this and has some cooperation from Github and Reddit (both the largest users of Markdown that I'm familiar with). This is something I've hoped to happen for a long time.

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To an interested outsider the appearance of MacFarlane's name in the list gave this instant gravitas. As the builder of pandoc he has to have the widest, most detailed knowledge of markup syntaxes of about anyone.

Given that, the lack of a formal definition is even more surprising: why did they not spec it in Haskell? Formal, unambiguous, and as a side benefit, executable.

> Github and Reddit (both the largest users of Markdown that I'm familiar with).

StackOverflow? (who're also on board via Atwood)

And Atlassian, sort of. When they feel like it. BB uses Markdown, but most of their other stuff is something else entirely.

Atwood hasn't been associated with StackOverflow for over 2 years: http://blog.codinghorror.com/farewell-stack-exchange/

That said I'm sure he has valuable experience with Markdown and is almost certainly using it again in his latest venture.

Ben is listed on the site and works at Stack Exchange right now.

Now if anyone can get the Facebook Phabricator Phriction wiki pholks to use it... They invented one just their own, differing on even the most basic things.

See https://secure.phabricator.com/T2849 for discussion.

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