fiatjaf on Nostr: The original Markdown idea didn't have the []() URLs, the URLs were exclusively ...
The original Markdown idea didn't have the []() URLs, the URLs were exclusively referenced at the bottom, it was much more readable, see https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/index.text
That reminds me of another bad property of Markdown: multiple ways of doing the same thing (a bug that likely was not present in the original idea -- but also I'm not saying the original was perfect or anything): there are 3 ways of doing links, 2 ways of doing each level of heading, at least 2 ways of doing ordered and unordered lists, 2 ways of doing bold and 2 ways of doing italic, and 2 ways of doing code blocks, arguably also 2 ways of doing quote blocks.
That reminds me of another bad property of Markdown: multiple ways of doing the same thing (a bug that likely was not present in the original idea -- but also I'm not saying the original was perfect or anything): there are 3 ways of doing links, 2 ways of doing each level of heading, at least 2 ways of doing ordered and unordered lists, 2 ways of doing bold and 2 ways of doing italic, and 2 ways of doing code blocks, arguably also 2 ways of doing quote blocks.