Yeah, it seems pretty arrogant. If anything I want more cues, not fewer.
While color for syntax highlighting is relatively new, it does date to the 1980's, , and so if it was a person it'd be middle aged by now...
Even long before that the syntactic conventions of many languages were designed to achieve much the same (e.g. different casing patterns), some of which have survived into modern languages, along with a long string of "pretty printing" tools that to format things with bold, underline, italics etc.
The only reason I didn't rely on color for highlighting much in the early 90's was that e.g. at university I often still worked on monochrome terminals.
While color for syntax highlighting is relatively new, it does date to the 1980's, , and so if it was a person it'd be middle aged by now...
Even long before that the syntactic conventions of many languages were designed to achieve much the same (e.g. different casing patterns), some of which have survived into modern languages, along with a long string of "pretty printing" tools that to format things with bold, underline, italics etc.
The only reason I didn't rely on color for highlighting much in the early 90's was that e.g. at university I often still worked on monochrome terminals.