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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm a markdown programmer and i disagree with this statement

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LaTeX being called "programming" I can see, but I've never heard someone try to justify Markdown as programming. It's just formalizing things people were already doing to format text in plain text files into approximately half of a standard.