Re: [9fans] acme fonts

[George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:13:03 -0700 Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com> wrote:

>
> > actually, even by the time of QED, assembly source code didn't bother
> > lining up the comments, just tabbed over and said what there was to
> > say.
> > not that it was chatty, even then...
>
> it would be frightening to estimate how much time programmers have
> wasted formatting their text so comments line up and other such idiocies.
> proportional fronts are liberating because you get back all that time. if
> your program needs to be laid out with vertical alignment to be understood,
> rewrite it.
>
> -rob

Proportional fronts? I thought D'Arcy Thompson showed that all fronds are
proportional, on Fibonnaci series?

-George

PS There are texts which it makes sense
	to lay out in fixed indents

   Lest by typography
	you ruin their orthography


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