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It reduces productivity and adds headache. Code is not a textbook. A good programmer has to always look at different pieces of code and would lose himself in th

• Jtsummers 13y ago
  Well, even textbooks often use colors, fonts, emphasis and other mechanisms for the same thing we use it in syntax highlighted code. And if he's meaning to compare it to prose, while they typically lack color (due more to the means of printing than the format, check out old manuscripts and they use color quite often), they use punctuation and other methods of emphasis like bold, italics, size, and underlining.