On 2010-03-05 17:59 PM, Chris Rebert wrote:
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Aahz <a...@pythoncraft.com
<mailto:a...@pythoncraft.com>> wrote:
 > In article <7xwrxv4vv7....@ruckus.brouhaha.com
<mailto:7xwrxv4vv7....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>>,
 > Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
 >>
 >>ReST is another abomination that should never have gotten off the
 >>ground.  It is one of the reasons I react so negatively to your
 >>config format proposal.  It just sounds like more of the same.
 >
 > Really?  What should we use instead of reST?

Markdown, Textile, or possibly Creole; reST has so little use outside of
Python as to be nearly Python-specific.
It'd be nice not to have to learn yet another markup language without
good reason.

I believe ReST predates all of those mentioned.

--
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
 that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
 an underlying truth."
  -- Umberto Eco

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