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... This is surely a minority view. Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything I can't honestly believe the whole go community just de
by shadowmint 14y ago
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This is surely a minority view.
Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything
I can't honestly believe the whole go community just decided to by like, oh gee, well Rob doesn't like it, I gues we'll just ignore what everyone else is doing and do our own thing.
For what it's worth, I use syntax highlighting in my go code, and so does http://tour.golang.org/ http://tour.golang.org/
- mseepgood 14y ago> Everyone uses syntax highlighting, for everything. for everything I guess I'm not the mainstream kind of guy then.
- VeejayRampay 14y agoAnd everyone uses it for a reason: color is one of the primary discriminators of human vision, it carries information efficiently and does it instantly, as clearly laid out in the Wikipedia article about visual search (pop-out effect) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_search It seems strange that Rob Pike would call it "infantile". I don't think it's very modern (nor mature) to say that either, since it completely ignores years of research done on the subject by scientists. But then again, to each his/her own.
- dchest 14y agoHe isn't arguing that highlighting doesn't carry more information. I think he's saying that it carries useless or wrong information.