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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: I hate you all
Date: 6 Apr 2013 15:15:36 GMT
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On 2013-04-06, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> (*) There was a fad about 10 or 15 years ago to print code
> samples in books in proportional fonts.  Prentice-Hall seemed
> to be particularly guilty of this.  Fortunately, common sense
> prevailed and everybody has gone back to monotype.

Bjarne Stroustrup likes it, and I agree with him that code is
even easier to read that way, especially in hard-copy.

But most tools have not caught up with the idea. I'll switch as
soon as vim supports it.

-- 
Neil Cerutti