https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
"On August 3, 2006, I uploaded the first version of pandoc to my website,
releasing it under the free GPL license. Pandoc 0.1 consisted of about 3000
lines of Haskell code, with no dependencies aside from GHC’s standard library.
It could convert Markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX documents into any
of these formats, plus RTF or S5. I had no idea at the time that this would
just be the first of over two hundred releases over the next twenty years; that
the project would become the most popular program written in Haskell; that I
would spend countless hours on bug-fixes, improvement, and project management;
that I would collaborate with programmers in many other countries; that pandoc
would come to support over fifty document formats; that it would allow
automatic generation of citations and bibliographies; that it would become
integrated into academic writing tools like Quarto and Jupyter Notebook; that
it would be installed on millions of computers around the world.
How did this happen? I want to take advantage of pandoc’s birthday to tell the
story of the project, as best I can remember it."
Via Christoph S.
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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