I learnt to program in 1990s at Glasgow University with the same team who created Haskell. We programmed (in Pascal and Haskell* ) with proportional fonts, bold

I learnt to program in 1990s at Glasgow University with the same team who created Haskell. We programmed (in Pascal and Haskell* ) with proportional fonts, bold, italics and tabs. Later we had to use literate style: the essay documents (by now in LaTex) could be run as code was tagged and everything else was a comment. As I recall, if you handed in a proportional printout your assignment was marked down if marked at all. With high res screens and beautiful on-screen fonts (on Macs & Suns) it only seemed natural at the time. In my opinion it was the arrival of Linux at home with tiny monitors and low-powered PC (coupled with a slightly macho overemphasis on editing in the command-line and a disdain for GUIs) that took us back to proportional fonts. Shame. * Actually, Gofer, Mark Jones's variant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gofer_(programming_language)