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Exact same thing happened to me when trying to do my first cs problem set. It was some filename that I was sure had a 1 in it but it was an l. It's almost as
by dexy 15y ago
Exact same thing happened to me when trying to do my first cs problem set. It was some filename that I was sure had a 1 in it but it was an l. It's almost as if courier tries as hard as possible to make the two look the same.
- jleader 15y agoCourier was intended to look like a traditional typewriter font. For many decades, most typewriters didn't have a key for 1 (one), you were supposed to use the lower-case l (ell) instead. Teletypes did have a one key, probably because they were all-uppercase, so there wasn't a lowercase ell available.