SyntaxColoring

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Coloring of syntax in different programming languages is a nice feature. Some people think that is is just some fancy unimportant stuff, but there are actually good arguments for it. For example, if you are used to see strings in the code in the color brown, your brain will react if something else that is not a string is also brown; in this way, it helps to spot missing quotes and brackets and comment-closures.

Also, by modifying the intensities of text such that regular symbols and logic and numbers are fairly dark (or high-contrast), while strings and comments are relatively light, it becomes easier to skim across blocks of code to locate what you're looking for.

Certainly too much color and pizazz can be a distraction. The feature is usually customizable, so take advantage of that and create a scheme that works for you.

aka SyntaxHighlighting

aka ChromaCoding? (in Borland's IDE, an early (1990?) implementation of this feature)


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