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This will affect you differently depending on what language you use and whether you like to align things in columns. Think of how some people format C functions
by seabee 15y ago
This will affect you differently depending on what language you use and whether you like to align things in columns. Think of how some people format C functions, with each parameter on a new line aligned at the open paren.
Personally I find that kind of alignment unnecessary and creates too much busywork. Proportional fonts prevent you from even trying. (Unless your editor supports elastic tabstops, but since very few do this is moot.)
FWIW, I program in Georgia, until I find a serif font I like better. EVERYONE comments on it.
- adriand 15y agoI have tab and column alignment OCD. I can't even read other people's code without getting a terrible itch to realign things. I think a proportional font would either drive me crazy or, on the other hand, might be kind of good for me.
- Stormbringer 15y agoIt's the dirty little secret of the "we hate tabs crowd" - they have to keep everybody in monospaced fonts otherwise their conspiracy to force programmers to repeatedly bash their space bars falls apart. All joking aside, the choice of font should reflect what it is that you are trying to do with the text. In theory a serifed font is more readable if you are reading the entire text, whereas a sans serif font is supposedly better for skimming through looking for something in particular. (so on a web page with an article, the article text should be serifed, and the sidebar menu should be sans serif) An application of this might be that if you are printing out a codebase in order to read it in entirety for the first time, you should use a font with serifs. whereas if the codebase is relatively familiar to you, but you are printing it out and going bug hunting or reviewing the code, use a sans serif font.