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		robinh on May 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Syntax highlighters are wrong The color red is often associated with bad; needs to stop; wrong. Removal isn't such a big step from there, I think. The opposite probably applies to green.

freshhawk on May 11, 2014 [–]

Right, that's the point. Removal shouldn't be thought of as "bad" and the red/green == bad/good association does seem to be fairly deep.

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