Reference Implementation
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This directory contains John Gruber's original Perl implementation of Markdown. Smart diff programs like Araxis Merge will be able to match up this file with markdown.pl.
A little tweaking helps. In markdown.pl:
- replace `#` with `//`
- replace `$text` with `text`
Be sure to ignore whitespace and line endings.
Note: This release of Showdown is based on `markdown1.0.2b7.pl`, but uses the HTML parser from `markdown1.0.2b2.pl`.