Good point: no-syntax highlighting is just syntax highlighting in one color, with no computation time spent to perform it. What the situation really is is that

Good point: no-syntax highlighting is just syntax highlighting in one color, with no computation time spent to perform it. What the situation really is is that there are a variety of ways syntax highlighting can be done--not just the colors, but how fine-grained you want to be. Blanket statements like "syntax highlighting is bad" just don't make sense.