Old people syntax hilighting

I've noticed that most of my professors don't use syntax hilighting in VIM. They will either use white on black, or green on black. Does /prog/ think that this makes them worse programmers?

This thread reminds me of when I was forced to use Eclipse and Java in a course.

I don't know about the others, but when I'm in the middle of typing and some of the text changes color or something gets highlighted then de-highlighted, it's distracting. And the automated syntax checking is even worse - "You have an undeclared variable here." "Missing parenthesis." "Uninitialized variable." I'm perfectly aware of that and I'll fix it later, but right now the code I happen to be working on is more important. SHUT THE FUCK UP, MACHINE.