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  • the things which are added to plaintext to make HTML make parsing simpler for the computer and more difficult for the human

    This is the crux of where we disagree. <title> exists to be human readable. A machine would be happier with a binary identifier.

    A human does not need additional training to utilize every character in a Markdown file

    Uhh ask any non-tech person to write a markdown file. This simply is not true.

    A header 2 tag (h2) in HTML requires no more training than a header 2 tag (##) in Markdown. They both exist to make it easier for a human to dictate to a machine what should happen.


  • If a language’s primary purpose is for a machine to read it, why does anyone use Python instead of C, when Python is typically CPython? Python is still used because it is more human readable.

    If you were saying this about something like CBOR compared to JSON, I’d agree, but the primary purpose of most programming languages is to be human readable, and to, in a human readable format, define instructions and guardrails.