[rescue] [off-topic] What was this markup language?

[Andrew Jones]

On 12/09/2015 09:31 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
> The proliferation of Markdown irritates me.  Yes, it's simple.  But
> every actual implementation I've yet encountered has been simple to the
> point of being brain-damaged.  Not least because they lack any provision
> for escaping characters.  Just try to put 'GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.*
> TO...' in a message on Slack for example.

Enclose it in backticks and it works fine.

`GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO ...`