@nxadm@vruz Would have been a neat alternate timeline if @gruber just used #Perl#POD instead of inventing #Markdown, but the former admittedly isn’t quite as aesthetic when viewed as plain text.
(As evidenced by the above sentence, which would have had to say I<quite> in POD for the same effect.)
Different times, different use cases: POD was invented in a world of man pages and ugly nroff codes; Markdown in web pages in ugly #HTML.