I think he may have a point, but I think there's a minimal highlighting configuration that is helpful, yet not obnoxious: one where comments and constants are h

I think he may have a point, but I think there's a minimal highlighting configuration that is helpful, yet not obnoxious: one where comments and constants are highlighted in their colors. Comments are pretty much universally "skimmable" if what you want to get at is the code, and also completely unrelated to actual code (other than describing it), so I think they deserve their own color and that it is helpful. Also, conversely comments in their own color stand out from the code so that if you're looking for descriptions, they are easier to find. Colors also being useful for constant values (strings and numeric ones alike) because at least I really want something hard coded to stand out. Sometimes it should be hard coded, sometimes it shouldn't, but pretty much always, what the hard coded content _is_, is of interest.