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Comic Sans is the ultimate coding font.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:05

Discuss.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:08

I had a friend who used Comic Sane whenever he could. He would print his reports written in Comic Sans, design covers with Comic Sans, read ebooks written it Comic Sans.

He died recently.

Now, as a memorial to him, I use Comic Sans in my EMACS.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:10

Doesn't TextMate default to some Comic Sans type font? LOL RUBY ON RAILS FAD

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:13

The ultimate coding font is ``DejaVu Sans Mono''.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:26

>>4
True dat. 9px or gtfo

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:33

What the hell, Emacs doesn't support ``DejaVu Sans Mono''?!

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:47

>>6
HOW DO I USE XFT EMACS?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:51

STOP THE MADNESS
BAN COMIC SANS


In 1995 Microsoft released the font Comic Sans, originally designed for comic book style talk bubbles containing informational help text. Since that time the typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. These widespread abuses of printed type threaten to erode the very foundations upon which centuries of typographic history are built.

While we recognize the font may be appropriate in a few specific instances, our position is that the only effective means of ending this epidemic of abuse is to completely ban Comic Sans.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 16:56

>>6
Two words: Emacs -nw.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-13 20:54

>>4
Lol, TrueType. Why would you want to waste all your screen estate with a huge, blurry font type?
I keep telling you guys; Dina, or ProFont in a pinch.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 6:27

>>10
Bitmap fonts are inferior.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 6:57

>>10
>>11
Lego vs. Ink+Paper. Choose your text construction material.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 10:59

>>12
Fine, I'll use a vector font when I print my code, which normally happens about never.
Until then I'll enjoy my superior crisp, small fonts that are hand-crafted with attention to every pixel for maximum contrast and readability.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 13:11

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 13:13

>>10
Wut? Tiny fonts are for programmers who can't remember what they're working on.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 13:30

>>15
True dat, learn 2 code folding.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:07

Segoe Script's pretty good too.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:21

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:30

I like Consolas, but at certain font sizes the dots above lower-case ``i'' and ``j'' start to topple off. What the fuck? Does this happen with the Windows renderer?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:33

>>19
Windows

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:35

I like Emacs, Allman indent style and spaces as indentation.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:35

>>20
Keep looking; maybe you'll find some more words you know.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 15:52

>>22
Aren't you going to hate me for the fact that I like Emacs, Allman indent style and spaces as indentation?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:02

>>23
You bet he is

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:08

>>24
He is what?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:17

>>25
Hating

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:41

>>26
Rolling?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:45

>>27
Seeing

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 16:49

>>28
Pandiculating?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 21:51

Terminal 6pt is the best coding font for Winders.  I have yet to see a comparable, usable, Leen00ks font.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 21:52

He's trying to catch me riding dirty.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 22:17

>>30
Tixus and Anorexia are some very slick-looking small fonts.
Also, you can convert Windows bitmap fonts to .pcf files to use in Linux, look around.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 22:24

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 22:49

>>33
What font is that? Lucida Console?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 23:15

>>33
too fucking big to be usable

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 23:58

>>35
Get a smaller monitor. Now you have zero problems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-14 23:59

>>36
You mean, now I have two problems.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 0:05

>>37
No? Smaller monitor, same resolution = smaller font.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 0:08

>>35
Yeah, I love tiny fonts. I sit in a weird position, I can't help but lean forward with my face up to the screen, so smaller fonts are the best for me.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 0:11

>>38
Any monitor, same resolution = same percentage of screen real estate.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 0:13

>>40
Nobody said anything about real-estate. Regardless, why would you ever need to see more text than that at once?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 1:06

What's the deal with these really fucking small fonts? My fonts are about the same size as >>33's, maybe even a bit bigger. My vision's not all that bad and I could use much smaller fonts, but decently sized fonts are much easier on the eyes.

You really don't need to see shitloads of code at once; if your functions are longer than the ~40-50 lines you get with a decent font on an average monitor, you have bigger problems than just font size.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 1:54

>>42 you have bigger problems than just font size.
Screen resolution?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 2:51

>>43
Lack of abstraction.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 2:52

>>42
It's not about big functions, it's about having documentation, multiple source files, project shit, etc etc etc, all visible at once.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 2:56

>>33
Blurry fonts are blurry.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 3:07

>>45
Multiple screens + tiling window manager.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 3:10

>>46
I never understood this argument. Do you have like perfect vision or something?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 3:21

>>48
I can see RGB subpixels & phosphors at normal viewing distance.  Reading newsprint and magazines is annoying because I can see the color dithering.  I can read microprint on checks and credit cards, but only if I put it really close to my face.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 3:25

>>49
You sound like you're saying you're special, or an exception.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 3:36

>>48
For looking at a computer screen, being nearsighted is just as good as having perfect vision.
Even if you were farsighted, a pair of glasses should enable you to easily see the difference in clarity between a bitmap font and an antialiased one on just about any LCD monitor, except maybe those high-resolution low-area laptop screens.
The importance of this diminishes with larger font size, of course.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 4:20

>>48
I never understood this argument. Do you have like a badly focused CRT or something?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 4:23

>>34
Looks like DejaVu(/Bitstream Vera) Sans Mono.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 4:47

NSimSun is the best coding font. It's very beautiful.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 5:14

>>54
Is it Touring Complete?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 5:16

>>50
I fully expect people who have been poking pixels for 20 years to have the visual training of seeing such detail.  It's >>48 who is the exception, thinking that it's something special to notice pixel-level detail or blurring.  It is not, therefore it must be clear, and preferably small because wasting GUI space is just plain stupid.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 7:17

/prog/, this thread is starting to look like your average /g/ discussion. Don't do it again.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 12:31

>>57
I am not entirely sure that that wouldn't be an improvement.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 13:28

>>45
What for? Unless you have the eyes of a chameleon, you can only look at one of those at a time anyway.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 16:59

>>59
Your average /prog/rammer has eyes like a chameleon, or at least some kind of reptile.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 18:36

>>60
Some kind of reptile...? Like... a /prog/snake?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 18:48

>>60
I was referring chiefly to the chameleon's ability to focus its eyes independently. If most of /prog/ can do that, I want you to teach me now.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 20:11

>>62
You have to meditate and focus on SICP. The rest comes naturally

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 23:36

>>62
Moving eyeballs and focusing on something else then back is a fuckload faster than clicking/keypressing to scroll somewhere and back.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-15 23:49

>>64
Meaning you never have to remember anything, and you waste how much time looking back and forth?

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 3:55

>>65
Your argument is valid for small shitprograms only.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 14:04

>>66
You're so reliant on CONSTANT REFERENCE ALL THE TIME that you can't even follow my argument. The argument is:

1. The amount of time it takes to switch views varies in significance depending on how often you do it. Below a certain point, it is completely insignificant.

2. In order to switch views less often, it is necessary to remember whatever you just read.

3. If you put everything on the screen at once, you need to switch views, and don't need to worry about the overhead.

4. There is, however, time lost every time you look back and forth, but it's easy to miss because you're thinking about what you're doing (finding the right spot to refer to, looking back, remembering where you were).

5. Since it's so easy to do this and so easy to miss the downside, you will do it all the damn time, disorganizing your thoughts and slowing yourself down.

6. It's better to develop the ability to remember what you just fucking looked at. Read, read, write, write is much more efficient than Rweriadte,r , wreiadte.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 14:06

>>67
3, should of course be "don't need to switch views".

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 15:06

>>67
Your argument is valid only for people with brain damage affecting their memory.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 15:58

>>69
Untrue.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 16:09

>>70
False.

ZOMG OPTIMISED

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 16:12

>>71
Don't you "zoh my goptimize" me.

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 16:38

>>72
huh

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-16 19:00

>>71
nil

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-17 0:02

>>74
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Name: Anonymous 2008-01-17 0:18

Name: Anonymous 2008-01-17 5:19

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 13:20


Looking to find fault where there is   a wealth of   information on the   couch I always   ping random addresses   i come across   it feels like   it takes too   long But if   I try to   optimize just the   same as functions   And with this   for very long   time Im running   windows so no   one knows GTK2.

Name: Anonymous 2009-03-06 15:14


Wreiadte.

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