Wes Peters wrote: | On Saturday 01 March 2003 03:12 pm, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: || The font of the program text isn't really important, as long as || nesting isn't horribly broken by someone who typed the wrong number || of spaces instead of just hitting tab. | | But the font of the program text *is* important if you are considering | readability. We use variable-width fonts for books and printed matter | because they are easier to read than monospaced fonts.
Er, no. Things like serifs, variable width lettering, and kerning do make English more readable, but much like they do little good for Japanese, they are inconvenient for code, which is mostly symbols. I suppose Pascal would be alright in variable width, but certainly not C. I tried using variable with for C a while back, and the main problem I had was not with spacing, but my severely defective ocular receptors were unable to distingush between a lot of the symbols. IIRC, I went back to monospace after trying to find the syntax error on a line which wound up ending with a colon. sh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
