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A case against syntax highlighting (2007)
- geon 12y agoComparing code to natural language is dishonest. Code is nothing like that. In code, the structure and exact wording is important, while you probably wouldn't notice if a paragraph of fiction was rearranged and had words substituted with synonyms.
- davelnewton 12y ago> It encourages you to skim through code rather than understand it. Personally I find it allows me to skim through code so I can understand it. I'm not generally interested in syntactic overhead. I care about the names and structures of things. Occasionally I care about the type of things, but less often than I care about what I can actually do to that thing.