I started programming the C64, then moved to Turbo Pascal 3 for DOS, then Turbo Pascal 6. None of these environments provided syntax highlighting. Then came Bor

I started programming the C64, then moved to Turbo Pascal 3 for DOS, then Turbo Pascal 6. None of these environments provided syntax highlighting. Then came Borland Pascal 7, with syntax highlighting... And, boy, I was mesmerized! I really cannot think of going back to plain two-color editors like TP3. Syntax highlighting helps me to spot unterminated strings, mistaken variable names that clash with keywords, plus the general "feeling" of a page of code that I get when I quickly scroll a long source file in search of a specific place. I do not think that syntax highlighting has spread everywhere just because it looks cool. It is SOOO useful!