The old e-mail and Usenet news convention is to
use _italics_ and *boldface*.
Dolphin WikiWeb uses those conventions:
http://www.object-arts.com/wiki/html/Dolphin/WikiTextFormattingRules.htm
I can't find the reference that explains his rationale, but I seem to
recall that Ward created ''italic'' and '''bold'''
because those
markups were easily distinguishable and trivial to type. Both _ and *
require the use of the shift key, and that didn't meet with his
objective to make content creation as easy as possible. Of course,
that doesn't explain why he settled on CamelCase, but I think it's
safe to say that CamelCase betrays the influence of his
object-oriented coding background. (CamelCase is more popular than
underscores_in_variables among OO types.) I, for one, am extremely
grateful to Cliff Adams for inventing the [[free link]] convention.
Easy to distinguish from plain text, easy to type, and it's more
aesthetically pleasing and flexible.
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