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I don't know if that's actually traditionally true of fixed-width fonts. Courier, for example, is pretty bad, and widely used by people who aren't using a fixe
by repiret 7y ago
I don't know if that's actually traditionally true of fixed-width fonts. Courier, for example, is pretty bad, and widely used by people who aren't using a fixed-width font because they're programming.
- stan_rogers 7y agoTraditionally you'd use a lower-case ell for a numeral one, since there was no numeral one on your keyboard. Nor was there a separate zero. All of this "different characters for different uses" nonsense is for that newfangled electronic stuff.
- ncmncm 7y ago"I had to code a database using just ones and zeroes." "Oh, you had ones? We had to use the letter ell."