[squeak-dev] Re: Default code font
Colin Putney
cputney at wiresong.ca
Sun Aug 23 00:33:53 UTC 2009
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
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