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Nice :)

It's a principle of pattern recognition[1] regardless of language, I suppose.

It just takes time to learn and internalize the patterns to look for -- and perhaps some languages and syntax highlighters are better than others at exposing those patterns to the reader.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_recognition_%28psychol...

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True, check this out if you’ve not heard of it before. It’s is a great springboard into the topic of perception: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_psychology

To this I would add a couple of classic mid century studies on perception: Arnheim's "Art and Visual Perception" (which imo should be mandatory for any UI designer), and Merleau-ponty's "Phenomenology of Perception" (this one requires some extensive background reading, but it's well worth the effort)

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