and... text for the win

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 06 November 2020 21:34 UTC

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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > On 2020-11-06, at 00:08, Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> wrote:
    >>
    >> only allow those who can deal with XML

    > Submitting an I-D has never required skills in XML and still doesn’t.

And after 25 years of people telling us that text is dead, and we should move
on to their favorite vendor-proprietary tool, and get with the "hip" kids,
guess what: text-based markdown is all over github (gitlab, wiki*, ...)

Text based formats continue to win: markdown, yaml, JSON, etc.
All the cool kids use text based things today.

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