# Standard Flavored Markdown

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**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/standard-flavored-markdown/2382 "2014-09-03T19:06:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/user_avatar/discourse.codinghorror.com/codinghorror/32/36371_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/standard-flavored-markdown/2382/31 "2014-09-04T21:09:40Z")

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If that’s so, why aren’t all the other Markdown derivatives changing their names? It’s literally _impossible_ to write a Markdown parser that is not a fork because the current “spec” is so ambiguous:

[See for yourself](http://goo.gl/YGttny).

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