Programming With Proportional Fonts? 394
theodp writes "Betty or Veronica? Mary Ann or Ginger? Proportional or Monospaced? There's renewed interest in an old blog post by Maas-Maarten Zeeman, in which M-MZ made the case for programming with proportional fonts, citing studies that show proportional fonts can be read 14% faster than fixed-width fonts. Try it for a couple of weeks, he suggests, and you might like it too. Nowadays, Lucida Grande is M-MZ's font of choice on OS X, and he uses Lucida Sans on Windows. Helvetica, anyone?"
prophecy (Score:4, Funny)
this guys just trying to ensure the prophecy of the helvetica wars is fulfilled
Monaco (Score:4, Funny)
Monaco is fixed-width & good looking.
For bug-free code ... (Score:5, Funny)
MS Comic Sans is simply the best. My code doesn't have bugs, it has bloopers and out-takes.
It's probably better, (Score:1, Funny)
if you're programming in COBOL.
They're doing it wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Monaco (Score:4, Funny)
Still, I'd be willing to give it a try. If I knew how to get proportional fonts in vi. Anyone tell me how to add proportional fonts to a terminal in KDE 4?
Re:Pencil and Paper (Score:4, Funny)
Cue the XKCD comic with the butterflies, but I'm too lazy to find it.
Re:Pencil and Paper (Score:3, Funny)
Meh, pencils have a nice sharp point and all, but dedicated card punchers are still much faster.
Re:I wonder .. (Score:3, Funny)
What if you want to add a small ASCII drawing to a comment?
You mean like this:
Re:Monaco (Score:4, Funny)
Bah, you kids and your unique characters. I use fixedsys, and typing the wrong characters has never been a pr0blem.
Re:Monaco (Score:5, Funny)
Now if you could simulate a long persistence phosphor.
It's just not the same without a permanently burned-in login prompt
Re:Bad for the next maintainer (Score:3, Funny)
Here's a nickel, kid, get yourself a real editor. Anything worth using will be able to do it for you at the touch of a button.
Re:prophecy (Score:3, Funny)
Blasphemer! Stone him and raze his village!
Re:Stroustrup chose proportional-width (Score:2, Funny)
You are taking the C++ inventor's advice for legibility of code ?
Re:Overrated (Score:3, Funny)
I use three spaces, but I'm odd.