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<font face="Georgia">I have that same reaction to ornamentation of
browsers. I feel that the more pixels there are around the code,
the harder it is to see the code. To me it's a low signal-to-noise
ratio.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Bob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/24/13 1:31 AM, tim Rowledge wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On 23-02-2013, at 3:36 PM, Chris Muller <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:asqueaker@gmail.com"><asqueaker@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap=""><span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>Wow, I'm surprised -- the human eye discerns color contrast much more
<span class="moz-txt-citetags">> </span>easily than patterns.
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<pre wrap="">It's possible that is a very personal effect. I suspect it is at least partially a matter of how good your eyesight is, and very likely relates to your experience too; I've been doing this stuff for far too long and have grown very used to reading Smalltalk. I simply don't need advice from a bit of code about which tokens are messages, variables, comments or whatever. The extraneous data actually distracts from the wanted information, acting almost like camouflage.
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