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This seems like the fallacy of a lot of software development. Make the one time task of writing easier while making the many many multiple more times act of reading/comprehending/using harder.

Why?

Why would the reading be harder?

Because every recipe is written with the ingredients first, so you can get the ingredients ready and confirm you have the complete requirements easily.

I presume that with Cooklang, the compiler will automatically extract the list of ingredients and add it to the front.

Yes, but that makes the plaintext difficult to parse. I'll stick to Markdown.

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