A case against syntax highlighting

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/

Do you rely on syntax highlighting when developing software? If so, you may be shooting yourself in the foot. In this post, I will argue that syntax highlighting, while aesthetically seductive, moves focus from content to form, and [b]discourages those who look at the code from trying to understand it[/b].

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You example only proves you wrong. The symbols "for", "being", "symbols" and "of" are not part of the core language, while in languages like C/C++ these keywords are built in into the language.