Wikipedia talk:WikiProject C++/Syntax highlighting

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Embending HTML into wiki markup makes it look more cluttered and difficult to edit. It may be useful to devep MediaWiki extension which would use something like GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter. (Provided that administrators/stevards would accept such code on production system.) --Alvin-cs ✉ 16:07, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree that font soup is awful, and HTML soup is just as bad. We want to be able to cut-and-paste code to and from Wikipedia without having to HTMLify it, because (as all programmers know) extra typing means extra bugs. For some reason, I support the Pascal convention of bolding keywords ("function foo(var x: integer); begin ...") in Pascal, but I can't stand it in C-family languages. And <font> tags are orders of magnitude more intrusive than triple apostrophes. Plain text for code samples! --Quuxplusone 09:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)