I hate you all

Neil Cerutti neilc at norwich.edu
Sat Apr 6 11:15:36 EDT 2013


On 2013-04-06, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> (*) There was a fad about 10 or 15 years ago to print code
> samples in books in proportional fonts.  Prentice-Hall seemed
> to be particularly guilty of this.  Fortunately, common sense
> prevailed and everybody has gone back to monotype.

Bjarne Stroustrup likes it, and I agree with him that code is
even easier to read that way, especially in hard-copy.

But most tools have not caught up with the idea. I'll switch as
soon as vim supports it.

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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