I'm a little unconvinced to be honest. As one of the other comments here states, syntax highlighting can also be explained as removing the need for parsing synt

I'm a little unconvinced to be honest. As one of the other comments here states, syntax highlighting can also be explained as removing the need for parsing syntax as heavily, freeing up mental resources to focus on semantics. Now, whether or not it actually has that effect, I don't know, but it seems like a reasonable belief, and also seems more like it would be the intention behind syntax highlighting in the first place. Though again, I don't know. Furthermore, I'm bot sure that I even agree with the premise that syntax problems are less of an issue than semantic. The number of problems I run into that turn out to be syntax errors feels greater. Particularly thorny ones. Although that also speaks to syntax highlighting's shortcomings. Nevertheless I enjoyed the article because it's good to rethink our assumptions.