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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme fonts
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:13:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B83BC39-FE1E-11D7-B59F-000A95B984D8@mightycheese.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7b27897f687dacbd0fd8271beeb50cca@caldo.demon.co.uk>


> 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



  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-14  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-13 16:43 Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-13 16:49 ` David Presotto
2003-10-13 16:56   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-13 19:02   ` vdharani
2003-10-13 19:35     ` Dan Cross
2003-10-14  8:09   ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-14  8:13     ` Rob Pike [this message]
2003-10-14 11:17       ` David Presotto
2003-10-14 23:44       ` George Michaelson
2003-10-15  5:30         ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-15 10:28           ` Brantley Coile
2003-10-14 19:36     ` vdharani
2003-10-15  5:40       ` Charles Forsyth
2003-10-14  0:04 ` rob pike, esq.
2003-10-15  7:29   ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2003-10-14 12:17 David Presotto
2003-10-14 15:51 ` Rob Pike
2003-10-15  3:27   ` david presotto
2003-10-14 16:04 ` chris
2013-12-11 18:45 [9fans] Acme: fonts Blake McBride
2013-12-11 18:52 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-11 19:05   ` Christopher Wilson
2013-12-11 19:12   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 19:15     ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 19:19       ` Christopher Wilson
2013-12-11 19:26     ` sl
2013-12-11 19:33       ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 19:50         ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 19:53           ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 20:04             ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 20:12               ` Rubén Berenguel
2013-12-11 20:26                 ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 20:03           ` sl
2013-12-11 20:06             ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 20:30               ` sl
2013-12-11 20:40                 ` erik quanstrom
2013-12-11 20:47                 ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 21:04                   ` sl
2013-12-11 20:15           ` Aram Hăvărneanu
2013-12-11 20:38             ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:10               ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:14                 ` andrey mirtchovski
2013-12-11 21:21                   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:25                     ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 21:25                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-12-11 21:56                   ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 22:00                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2013-12-11 22:05                     ` Blake McBride
2013-12-11 22:08                     ` Mark van Atten
2013-12-11 19:32 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
     [not found] <CAA8EjDRkQDO+wL1tuTQ6GMxs7rqNji4qFM80F5Kz-H0UR24R4w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-07-21 23:21 ` Acme fonts Anthony Martin
2020-07-22 18:52   ` [9fans] " Russ Cox
2020-07-22 22:47     ` Charles Forsyth
2020-07-22 23:05       ` Rob Pike
2020-07-23  3:38         ` ori
2020-07-23  4:31           ` Rob Pike
2020-07-23  5:27     ` Lucio De Re
2020-07-23 13:08       ` Ethan Gardener
2020-11-20 21:31     ` Yaroslav K
2020-11-20 22:01       ` Stuart Morrow

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