It seems that all the simplified syntaxes for writing html out there fail to consider eficiency. They seem to consider blindly only usability. One of the relevant syntax example is the link. Both markdown and creoele (the syntax for wikipedia like wiki), fail to provide the simplest form for link that is [this is a link] or [http://mobiphil.com]. One of the mos frequent syntax elements on html pages are the links itself, so why should we not allocate that syntax element ([this is i link]) for that. Creole wants to force me to use double “[", that is [[this is a link]], markdown even more complicated syntax [name][http://this is a link].

Again I would preffer the creole way, but with one “[”. There were excuses that “[” is used alone. My answer is do it as it is done in computing for ages. Invent an escape character, that can be easily “\” and use “\[” if you want a “[”