Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Pascal Syntax Poster (14 Oct 2004) When Brian Howard and I were writing the Pascal Manual for Apple Computer, I discovered that the syntax chart that had been published with previous Pascal books was incorrect. With some effort and attention, I created a new and correct syntax chart, and had the brainstorm to use color to aid in understanding the structure. In each place that a new syntactic unit appeared, I made it in a unique color, and then the graphic definition of that unit was in the same color. This allowed a programmer to quickly scan the chart to find an answer to whatever question they might have about Pascal syntax. I made up a poster, and soon it was over every programmer's desk at Apple. Article URL: http://jef.raskincenter.org/published/pascal_poster.html Read 59 more articles from Jef Raskin sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Fault-tolerant Fulltext Search for Large Multilingual Scientific Text Corpora     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy