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53	53	## Frequently Asked Questions
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	55	Nobody has asked me these, but I assume that if someone wanted to ask
	56	me questions, they would probably be some of these.
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55	58	### Why?
56	59
57	60	It's my party, and I'll bikeshed if I want to.
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59		### Why Not Markdown?
	62	### Why not Markdown?
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61	64	Markdown isn't easily extensible, and also it's fraught with
62	65	edge-cases and difficult to implement in a new language. TeLML is
63	66	extensible, and it's easy to write a naïve recursive descent parser
64	67	for it in basically any language.
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66		### Why Not XML?
	69	### Why not XML?
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68	71	I know XML is eXtensible, after all, but—do _you_ want to write XML by
69	72	hand? Because _I_ don't. Yeah, `\em{foo}` is more heavyweight than
70	73	Markdown's `_foo_`, but it's also a fair bit more lightweight than
71	74	XML's `<em>foo</em>`.
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73		### Why ~~Not ReST~~?
	76	### Why not ReStructured Text?
74	77
75	78	Because I didn't know about its extensibility when I started writing
76	79	TeLML, and now this exists and I use it and I don't really want to
77	80	switch.
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	82	### Are there other language implementations?
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	84	I have less-polished Scheme and Rust implementations that I haven't
	85	put online yet. I'm planning on using the Rust implementation for a
	86	project at some point, so it might show up before too long.
78	87
79	88	### Why is your code so bad?
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