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Felix Kohlgrüber
03/11/2019, 7:21 PM“Syntax highlighting” is an unfortunate misnomer, since pattern matching is considerably weaker than syntactic analysis. It would be more accurate to call it “unreliable keyword, string, and comment recognition”.From https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258629476_Displaying_and_Editing_Source_Code_in_Software_Engineering_Environments
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Kartik Agaram
03/11/2019, 7:47 PMI periodically argue that computer language 'syntax' should be called 'punctuation'.
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Gregor
04/01/2019, 1:44 AMLove it 😁