Currently, code highlighting is turned off (see balpha's comment here). It is possible to turn it on, if we want so.
I think this would be nice to have, maybe on a per-tag basis, but turning it on is definitely the first step.
Because it is disabled site-wide, we can't force it by manually specifying the language as described heredescribed here.
Caution: This vote is not about wether or not we should enable it automatically when a certain tag is used, it's wether or not we should enable code highlighting on the site.
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Update: I think it's pretty clear where this is going. Can anyone do this change?