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Back in the day™ Think’s Pascal used bold, italics and underlining to do syntax highlighting because the Mac’s screen was black-and-white. It would be a comprom
by mannschott 5y ago
Back in the day™ Think’s Pascal used bold, italics and underlining to do syntax highlighting because the Mac’s screen was black-and-white. It would be a compromise: you can’t encode as much information into the text’s appearance without access to color, but it could be sufficient depending on your requirements.
- jagger27 5y agoI’m thinking of old Visual Studio syntax highlighting where it primarily uses green and blue. Maybe pick one of those like E-ink panels can already do.
- int_19h 5y agoEven further back in the day, the Algol-60 reference language used bold and/or underlining for keywords - handy when all you have is a typewriter: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/report/Algol60_report_CACM_1960_June.pdf http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/report/Al... http://www.algol60.org/reports/algol60_rr.pdf http://www.algol60.org/reports/algol60_rr.pdf (Although technically this was actually syntax, not just syntax highlighting, since that's how the reference language distinguished between keywords and identically spelled identifiers.)