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		nailer on Aug 5, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I stick with Perl Most people have no idea of what the asterisk key does, and have no experience in markup languages. I guess I expect tools written in a language which emphasises usability for developers to do the same for users.

sartak on Aug 5, 2008 [–]

reddit, well-known for being written in Python, also uses markdown. So does this site, written in Arc.

What's your point?

tptacek on Aug 6, 2008 | [–]

This site does not use Markdown.

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