back-translation and round-tripping

[John Gruber]

Bowerbird at aol.com wrote on 10/17/06 at 8:28 PM:


> p.s.   anyone here have reaction to the

> analysis of markdown from ivan kristic

> for the one-laptop-per-child project?


It's OK, I guess, but certainly nothing I'd allow the name
"Markdown" to apply to. Some of his criticism of Markdown's 1.0
syntax I agree with, but most of the differences in his proposal I
consider unsightly.

-J.G.