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cubefox 72 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Your hex editor should color-code bytes

Well, he argued in this 19 years old essay that syntax highlighting for programming languages is bad. Which might have been somewhat defensible in 2007, but is obviously completely false in 2026 AD.

userbinator 72 days ago [–]

Care to give any other arguments besides "it's old and thus must be wrong"?

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