Why is stdio ... stdio?

[Chris Katko]

On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 09:11:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Friday, November 9, 2018 1:27:44 AM MST Kagamin via 
> Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
>> On Friday, 9 November 2018 at 06:42:37 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
>>
>> wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> You used markdown three times in your message.
>
> No, I didn't. I just used underscores, which has been used with 
> plain text for emphasis for decades. Supporting markdown, would 
> involve stuff like backticks for code highlighting, and special 
> markup for urls - stuff that doesn't actually provide 
> information to someone who's reading plain text but just gets 
> in the way, whereas the underscores _do_ provide information to 
> someone reading plain text.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis

FYI, Allegro.CC just uses

<code>
int main()
  {
  return 0;
  }
</code>

as well as <pre> for pre-formatted "monospace" text.

Neither of those would pollute a mailing list in plain-text mode 
because they'd exist only at the start and end of code. I'm sure 
you had no problem reading my above code.