[Python-ideas] Objectively Quantifying Readability

[CFK]

Matt, you took the words right out of my mouth!  The fonts that are being
used will have a big difference in readability, as will font size,
foreground and background coloring, etc.  It would be interesting to see if
anyone has done a serious study of this type though, especially if they
studied it over the course of several hours (I'm getting older, and I've
noticed that after about 8-10 hours of coding it doesn't matter what I'm
looking at, I can't focus enough to read it, but I don't know when I start
to degrade, nor do I know if different fonts would help me degrade more
slowly)

Thanks,
Cem Karan


On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Matt Arcidy <marcidy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > to be pedantic - ReallyLongDescriptiveIdentifierNames
> > has also an issue with "I" which might confuse because it
> > looks same as little L. Just to illustrate that choice of
> > comparison samples is very sensitive thing.
> > In such a way an experienced guy can even scam
> > the experimental subjects by making samples which
> > will show what he wants in result.
>
> I love this discussion, but I think anything that isn't included in a
> .py file would have to be outside the scope, at least of the alpha
> version :).  I am really interested in these factors in general,
> however.  Now I'm surprised no one asks which font each other are
> using when determining readability.
>
> "serif?  are you mad?  no wonder!"
> "+1 on PEP conditional on mandatory yellow (#FFEF00) keyword syntax
> highlighting in vim"
>
> -Matt
>
> >
> >
> > Mikhail
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