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Anyway, thanks for the news. :)

Why hasn't anybody captured pregnant Whalefish and raised the offspring?

Then, it would've become apparent - long before DNA methods were known. :D

Fortress (a dead JVM programming language by Guy Steele) had an interesting approach for special characters:

Or programming in the RPG Maker:

Regarding coloring, I created a simple Ruby editor with syntax highlighting that features...

- Indentation based coloring of whitespace

- Nesting-based coloring of parentheses

You can try it out here:

Of course, these ideas are not new.

There are plugins for IDEs for some languages, one that I recall is the F# depth colorizer:

And there is parentheses highlighting in Eclipse (when touched by the cursor).