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		tasuki 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Markdown took over the world > I know that in my younger years I would get a lot of flak for converting .rst files into .md when I joined projects. Why would you do that? Seems terribly impolite to join a project and start breaking things...

nvader 55 days ago [–]

Yes. With youth comes a lot of zeal along with a lack of respect for the established ways of doing things. Having convinced myself that Markdown was "better" than ReST, I couldn't see why anyone would disagree with me.

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