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Subject: Re: [9fans] acme fonts
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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:13:03 -0700
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> 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