With as many people blogging on Wordpress that wish to show code snippets I would have thought some better solutions for syntax highlighting would have been available by now. Unfortunately support is limited to only a handful of 3rd party modules each of which having their own limitations or issues that must be overcome.
Here are the various solutions I tried along with my comments:
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After playing with both of these libraries and feeding them a variety of code snippets, I settled upon wp-syntax. While it did require a few modifications to the CSS to get the line numbers to match with the code, the wider variety of supported languages was the key feature for me. I also modified the CSS to match my theme for both the plugins, so out of the box they dont look quite like my pictures shown.