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teddyh on May 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mononoki – A Font for Programming and Code Review

> there are people that swear by using variable space fonts for programming

This might include Bjarne Stroustrup – all the code examples in The C++ Programming Language is in a variable space font.

alexeiz on May 18, 2016 | [–]

A variable space font is good for a programming book where it can be a challenge to fit 80-character wide line of code on a page, but awful for actual programming.

_acme on May 18, 2016 | [–]

Bjarne uses Rob Pike's Sam text editor, which by default uses a proportional font (Lucida).

teddyh on May 18, 2016 | [–]

The Smalltalk system also used proportional fonts.

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