I feel markdown succeeds where other markup languages fail because the author didn't try to create a new language, but rather codify what people were doing already (specifically in emails). From Markdown's home page: While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters, the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
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