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If you were wanting to be really flash, you could see what languages the question was tagged as, and use this as a heuristic. People with sufficient rep could then do any association for new tags, (it may also encourage more consistent tagging) - still wouldn't always get it right for the "I'm trying to convert this perl to vb.net" type of question, mind you...
– Rowland Shaw
Commented Jul 2, 2009 at 15:45
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I like the use the tags idea. it would cover most right
– ShuggyCoUk
Commented Jul 2, 2009 at 18:18
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I agree that making SO stop being markdown would be bad. that said if you could embded it as something that is legit html...? Even then I prefer Rowland's idea
– ShuggyCoUk
Commented Jul 2, 2009 at 18:19
@dbr - Not knowing what language could also be solved with documentation.
– MikeSchinkel
Commented Oct 22, 2010 at 7:48
marked down for defeatist attitude.
– SamB
Commented Nov 20, 2010 at 23:49

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