and life goes on

[Seumas Mac Uilleachan]

Unfortunately this is apparently becoming the norm here. There's 
off-topic stuff, fits and starts of conversations about 
forking/rewriting/expanding/standardizing markdown, and very occasional 
questions about usage or edge case problems.

Fortunately (for me anyway) markdown "just works".

On 10/14/2011 06:02 PM, Christian Sciberras wrote:

> I'm starting to think I subscribed to the wrong mailing list. Either 

> that, or someone else did.

>

> Then again, I know I'll be well-informed about deaths of (someone's) 

> heroes... *sigh*

>

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> On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:45 PM, <Bowerbird at aol.com 

> <mailto:Bowerbird at aol.com>> wrote:

>

>     they say that deaths come in threes...

>

>     for me, it was these:

>     1.  scott wannberg, los angeles poet, one of my favorite performers

>     2.  michael hart, founder of project gutenberg, icon and iconoclast

>     3.  steve jobs, seemingly the only guy who made stuff work correctly

>

>     i'm sure that for others, dennis ritchie is on their list, for his

>     own trio:

>     1.  c

>     2.  k&r

>     3.  unix

>

>     godspeed to all of these people, who are "heroes" just as much as

>     any firefighter or soldier, heroes of creativity and the imagination.

>

>     and a hearty "chill out" to anyone who thinks this is "off-topic"...

>

>     ***

>

>     meanwhile, life goes on...

>

>     it seems that fletcher finally received his app-store blessing, so

>     we can hope that we will see "multimarkdown composer" soon...

>

>     which means i can come out with my little tool as well.      :+)

>

>     my editor uses z.m.l. (zen markup language), not markdown, but

>     it's close enough that you might want to take a look at it anyway.

>

>     if anyone wants to "alpha-test" it, just let me know backchannel...

>     it's cross-platform to the mac (even very old ones), p.c., and linux.

>

>     -bowerbird

>

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