Markdown: Why are there numerous implementations of the "Markdown" markup language?

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Published on 2010-05-09T15:31:23Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 15:38 UTC
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I was recently looking for a personal wiki and come upon Hatta, which uses Markdown simplify editing and generate html. My question is why are there some many implementations of Markdown in Python, Javascript, PHP, etc. when an official Perl implementation already exists? Is there some benefit to having this choice?

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