Re: [gopher] Hello, world!

[Kevin Veroneau <kevin@veroneau.net>]

Maybe the RFC format was the "inspiration" for the current Markdown syntax.  Perhaps the original reason Markdown was conceived was to make RFC documents more "pretty".  At lead that's my way of looking at it.

On January 1, 2015 4:28:31 PM MST, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:

On 2015-01-01 16:08, Kevin Veroneau wrote:
 On December 31, 2014 10:43:40 AM MST, Nick Matavka <n.theodore.matavka.files@gmail.com> wrote:

As regards format, please note that this is a MARKDOWN formatted
resource.
I will not consider re-flowing the text in any other format, unless
the Markdown format continues to be authoritative.  First of all,
RFCs are in modified Markdown and I have already started the RFC
process with the international people.
[...]

 Markdown for the win!  See, my idea of preferring Markdown in my
 Gopher client update was a perfect choice. Considering RFCs are also
 written in a similar syntax.  Markdown is just so easy to read
 regardless if it's rendered as rich text or plain text.  I actually
 never knew RFC documents were markdown compatible.  Learn something
 new everyday.

I'd say it's most likely the other way around, Markdown is (similar to)
RFC syntax.

As far as I know, RFCs are written in plain text ASCII (or perhaps *roff
is/was used in some stage). Markdown is just close to plain text, but I
don't think it makes sense to label things that have existed since 1969
as Markdown (which appeared in 2004, according to wikipedia).

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