John Gruber on Markdown/Plaintext

Daring Fireball: Yours Truly on The Vergecast: # the Epic Story of Markdown : But the biggest reason for Markdown’s continuing success isn’t Markdown itself. It’s the triumph of plain text files, both for system configuration and for the interchange of human-readable (and thus, LLM-readable) prose. Markdown isn’t really a “syntax”. It’s a set of conventions [ ]