Suppose you're some sort of crazy nerd fellow and you live in an area that's absolutely covered in fiber optics and network facilities. What kind of cost / infrastructure would be needed to hook in somewhere and get you're internet connection directly from a local datacenter?


Question: Syntax highlighting language hints
Answer: Scavenger's answer is a good idea, but # might be something that is valid in the code like a pre-processor command in C++ that can be part of the actual code sample.

I suggest to have something that is specified before the code block in a special way. The code block is indented with 4 spaces, so the language specifier could be indented 3 spaces (and only mean something when appearing immediately before a code block). This follows the simplicity in the markup rules that already exists.


  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;VB.NET
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dim myVariable As String 'Here is the first code line
  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;myVariable = "Hello world"