[Info-vax] Notepad++ highlighting for DCL

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/31/2019 8:47 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <qpd9pb$bpo$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> On 10/30/2019 3:17 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> I don't see how colored text makes writing DCL easier than black on white or
>>> the reverse.
>>
>> Having DCL verbs in one color, comments in another color,
>> string constants in a third color, etc. do make code more readable.
> 
> I refuse to read text that looks like I am eating a bowl of Fruit Loops.
> It's hard on the eyes.  If text every color of the rainbow was that much
> more readable, why wouldn't books, newspapers, magazines, instructions,
> and eye charts be printed to look like Grateful Dead T-shirts?

Probably two reasons:
1) it is more expensive to print in color
2) the text in books/newspapers/magazines are usually all the
    same: English words (or another language). Text in source code
    belongs to some much more specific categories.

Arne