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Pandoc celebrates twenty years with a retrospective by its creator

John MacFarlane publishes a retrospective on twenty years of the Pandoc document converter.

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The fact

Launched on August 3, 2006 under the GPL license, Pandoc 0.1 had 3,000 lines of Haskell code.

The tool has become a benchmark for document format conversion.

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Why it matters

Pandoc est un outil open source largement utilisé pour la conversion de documents, marquant une étape importante dans l'histoire des logiciels libres et du développement en Haskell.

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