For whatever his writing may lack in eloquence, Eric makes up for it in my eyes at least by being a serious subject expert. He runs Read The Docs, one of the biggest online programming documentation repositories out there.
Kind of ironic that someone who’s name is synonymous with Erlang would now be seeing the value of strict typing.
There are efforts to give Markdown a formal spec, which should resolve the problem. It should have happened a long time ago, but better late than never.
I’m not an Erlang expert, but I believe that it is strictly typed. Just not statically typed. For example, Erlang does have an “official grammar”: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-November/062387.html Joe seems to want clarity and formalism, which is a prerequisite to interoperability.
You all have probably already seen it, but CommonMark is an attempt at a formal spec.
As far as recent critiques of markdown go, imo this one was more substantive.
For whatever his writing may lack in eloquence, Eric makes up for it in my eyes at least by being a serious subject expert. He runs Read The Docs, one of the biggest online programming documentation repositories out there.
Yeah, this one feels more like “why hosting your blog on someone else’s platform sucks” than anything about the shortcomings of Markdown.
The author should consider hosting his own server and using whatever markdown implementation is comfortable with instead of relying on github.
Kind of ironic that someone who’s name is synonymous with Erlang would now be seeing the value of strict typing.
There are efforts to give Markdown a formal spec, which should resolve the problem. It should have happened a long time ago, but better late than never.
I’m not an Erlang expert, but I believe that it is strictly typed. Just not statically typed. For example, Erlang does have an “official grammar”: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-November/062387.html Joe seems to want clarity and formalism, which is a prerequisite to interoperability.
Yeah it might suck, but what are we going to use instead? until someone creates something new, we’re stuck with it.