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[Ringz]

I'm still upset that Markdown ended up getting all the mindshare and doesn’t evolve. All the fragmentation through different markdown flavors doesn’t help.

[fwip → Ringz]

Evolution in the biological world usually looks a lot like fragmentation, at least in the short term.

[Ringz → fwip]

You are right. It would be interesting to compare evolution from a computer scientific and biological point of view. To find out if they are similar…

I believe that natural evolution makes it easier to let the bad branches die out.

[bandyaboot → Ringz]

We need a specification for the forced extinction of markup languages that fail to gain traction.

[threatofrain → Ringz]

The original core markdown being privately owned and frozen doomed it to having a politically funny future.