[gopher] Hello, world!

[Nuno Silva]

On 2015-01-01 16:08, Kevin Veroneau wrote:
> On December 31, 2014 10:43:40 AM MST, Nick Matavka <n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com> wrote:

> >As regards format, please note that this is a MARKDOWN formatted
> >resource.
> >I will not consider re-flowing the text in any other format, unless
> >the Markdown format continues to be authoritative.  First of all,
> >RFCs are in modified Markdown and I have already started the RFC
> >process with the international people.
[...]
>
> Markdown for the win!  See, my idea of preferring Markdown in my
> Gopher client update was a perfect choice. Considering RFCs are also
> written in a similar syntax.  Markdown is just so easy to read
> regardless if it's rendered as rich text or plain text.  I actually
> never knew RFC documents were markdown compatible.  Learn something
> new everyday.

I'd say it's most likely the other way around, Markdown is (similar to)
RFC syntax.

As far as I know, RFCs are written in plain text ASCII (or perhaps *roff
is/was used in some stage). Markdown is just close to plain text, but I
don't think it makes sense to label things that have existed since 1969
as Markdown (which appeared in 2004, according to wikipedia).

-- 
Nuno Silva (aka njsg)
Helsinki, Finland