RE: [External] : Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Drew Adams]

> GitHub-flavored Markdown does it with three backticks, optionally
> followed by the language name on the same line, followed by lines of
> the source block, followed by three backticks on a separate line.
> 
> ```elisp
> (defun greet()
>     (message "Hello World!"))
> ```

StackExchange/Overflow uses the same.

> Either is much less verbose/visually noisy than the equivalent Org
> syntax.

Yes.

(There might be good reasons / a need
for Org's noisier delimiting.  Dunno.)