Why is stdio ... stdio?

[Patrick Schluter]

On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 18:47:19 UTC, Chris Katko wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 November 2018 at 13:53:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
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> There is another possibility. Have the website run (fallible) 
> heuristics to detect a snippet of code and automatically 
> generate it. That would leave the mailing list people 
> completely unchanged.
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Simply using markup convention used in stackoverflow and reddit 
of formatting as code when indented by 4 blanks would already be 
a good step forward. I do it now even on newsgroup like 
comp.lang.c, the only newsgroup I still use via thunderbird 
(yeah, for the D groups I prefer the web interface which is 
really that good, contrary to all other web based newsgroup 
reader I ever saw).


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