Hi Neil! On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:54:02 +0000 Neil Bowers <neilb@neilb.org> wrote: > Markdown has long since won the battle of simple text-based documentation > formats. People, not just developers, are used to writing it in lots of > different places. Odds are that developers trying out Perl, coming from other > language experience, will be familiar with markdown, and pod will just seem > weird. > Quoting my page at https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/choice-of-docs-formats/ : ''' Why the Markdown Dialects Should be Avoided as much as Possible [ #markdowns ] There are too many Markdown dialects (e.g: GitHub's, reddit's, Stack Exchange's) each one with its own army and navy (= fragmentation and incompatibilities). Moreover, they can only be converted to XHTML. ''' So I am opposed for making one of the markdowns an integral part of POD. "Only dead fish go with the flow". Regards, ShlomiThread Previous | Thread Next