Re^2: Some thoughts around the "is Perl code maintainable" discussion

[moritz]

I totally agree on the importance of syntax highlighting. While code should arguably be readable without it, it makes reading far easier.

That's why I even built my own offline CMS which handles syntax highlighting via Text::VimColor.

Having regexes built into the language (rather than having a library which generates them from stings) makes it possible to do syntax hilighting for regexes.