On 22-Aug-09, at 1:33 PM, Bert Freudenberg wrote:

> Smalltalk code looks a lot more like natural language text than most  
> other programming languages, and the use of a proportional font  
> emphasizes that likeness. Besides, if we had a proportional font by  
> default then people would soon start aligning things with spaces,  
> which looks ugly to those using a proportional font.

Also, in Smalltalk everyone uses the same text editor. Chances are  
good that if it looks good in my image, it'll look good in yours. With  
source code in files, everybody uses their favorite editor, and you  
get all sorts of holy wars over the width of tab stops, where to wrap  
lines etc. Of course, the best way to resolve them are with monospaced  
fonts and spaces for indenting...

Colin