Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: John Gruber ya kirkiro yaren Markdown a cikin 2004 tare da haɗin gwiwar Aaron Swartz a kan rubutun, tare da burin ba mutane damar "rubuta ta amfani da sauƙin karantawa da sauƙin rubutu mai sauƙi, zaɓi ya canza shi zuwa ingantaccen tsarin XHTML (ko HTML)". Babban maƙasudin ƙirar sa shine iya karantawa <unk> cewa yaren ya zama mai iya karantawa kamar yadda yake, ba tare da kama kamar an yi masa alama ba tare da alamomi ko umarnin tsarawa, ba kamar rubutu da aka tsara tare da yaren alama ba, kamar Tsarin Rubutu Mai Arziki (RTF) ko HTML, waɗanda ke da alamun bayyane da umarnin tsarawa. Don wannan dalili, babban abin da ya samo asali shi ne al'adun da ake da su don yin alama a rubutu a cikin imel, kodayake kuma ya samo asali ne daga tsoffin harsunan alama, musamman setext, Textile, da reStructuredText.Gruber ya rubuta rubutun Perl, Markdown.pl, wanda ke canza shigar da rubutu mai alama zuwa ingantaccen, ingantaccen XHTML ko HTML kuma ya maye gurbin kusurwoyin kusurwa '<' '>' da ampersands '&' tare da alamomin halayen halayen su. Ana iya amfani da shi azaman rubutun kai tsaye, azaman plugin don Blosxom ko Movable Type, ko azaman matattarar rubutu don BBEdit. Tun daga wannan lokacin wasu sun sake aiwatar da Markdown misali a cikin tsarin Perl wanda ake samu akan CPAN (Text:: Markdown), da kuma wasu harsunan shirye-shirye daban-daban. An rarraba shi a ƙarƙashin lasisin BSD-style kuma an haɗa shi, ko ana samunsa azaman plugin don, tsarin sarrafa abun ciki da yawa. Shafuka kamar GitHub, Bitbucket, Reddit, Diaspora, Stack Exchange, OpenStreetMap, da SourceForge suna amfani da bambance-bambancen Markdown don sauƙaƙe tattaunawa tsakanin masu amfani.  Tambaya: Me zai iya amfani da shi game da BBedit.Markdown?
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