For a site like this one that caters to programmers, I find it an excellent choice to just give them all the expressiveness they want by letting them use what they already know: HTML.
What's HTML got to do with programmers? If I expect one markup language Perl programmers would know, it would be POD, not HTML. Besides, the language accepted on perlmonks isn't HTML. It has markup that HTML doesn't have (for links for instance), lots of HTML markup isn't allowed (a span element is allowed, but not a style attribute, which makes span not very useful, and there are other elements that aren't allowed), and some elements get a totally different meaning (code).
I don't think anyone knows the language being used on Perlmonks prior to arriving here.
Abigail
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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