> does the analogy being proposed really hold? It's not an analogy, it IS syntax highlighting. You just encode a lot of semantics into syntax in java, so synta

> does the analogy being proposed really hold? It's not an analogy, it IS syntax highlighting. You just encode a lot of semantics into syntax in java, so syntax highlighting is more useful for determining the semantics. I don't think the OP was claiming this is useful for english in the way syntax highlighting is useful for java.