Ask PG: Syntax highlighting on HN

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Title is self explanatory.. but a simple syntax highlighting format in comments would make code discussion so much better.

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There are many things that HN needs before syntax highlighting. I don't think there's any interest in implementing real improvements to HN, except in a limited fashion.

On the other hand, of all the things to implement syntax highlighting could be very easy with a library like http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README....

That's the territory of extensions normally, but I haven't seen any Chrome extensions worth keeping yet.

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