I am anothet retarded that loves whitespaces :) And as a proper retarded I love python too.
Igor Stasenko wrote > On 15 October 2013 18:36, Jimmie Houchin < > jlhouchin@ > > wrote: > >> On 10/15/2013 11:06 AM, Esteban Lorenzano wrote: >> >> *From: *Eliot Miranda < > eliot.miranda@ > > >> >> >> >>> Progress is possible, >> >> >> Indeed it is. And moving from proportional to mono-spaced fonts is not >> progress, it is regress. >> >> >>> perfection was not achieved in 81 or in 95. >>> >> >> I didn't say it was. I said that systems designed with a coherent >> aesthetics and philosophy are more coherent, powerful and comprehensible >> than those which are not. >> >> >> yes, they are, I agree with that, and that's what we are trying to >> achieve... advancing one small step at a time, because we cannot doit all >> together, sadly. >> What I do not see is how proportional fonts fits more with a pharo >> coherence (which in my pov does not exists today) than a monospaced one. >> >> >> But the change is away from proportional to monospace. I think the sale >> must be made as to what does that actually buy us. How does this improve >> our experience, pharo coherence? >> >> It seems that many of us here don't believe that it provides that >> coherence of UI/UX that your hoping to move us towards. >> >> So when changing from what we have, it seems that it needs to >> demonstrated >> that the change is for the better and not neutral or worse. >> >> I personally don't buy the it is less foreign to non-Smalltalkers >> argument. non-Smalltalkers would just move their distaste of Smalltalk >> somewhere else. Why do we have to use the image? Why can't I use Emacs, >> vim, Eclipse? Its all very personal and sometimes very visceral. >> >> I have seen some visceral comments from Igor regarding Python. I could >> make some from the C++ I've been looking at. >> >> > ah.. python. yes, i hate their choice of using white space as part of > language syntax. > That is really retarded choice. > And actually the roots of my disdain of it is same why i prefer > proportional fonts: > i like text, where white space is variable and not fixed, and used to make > the text more readable, > and ergonomically fit within its boundaries (like in newspaper column). > If for people it would be easier to read text printed with monospaced > font, > then it would be like that > long before first computer display appear in the world. > Therefore, the whole idea that monospaced font is more readable is moot. > > I could justify such choice if we would have certain technical limitations > (of the past), which forcing us to use > less memory and text terminals.. but we're not.. > > We need to be the best open source Smalltalk-like experience. And not be >> constrained to other languages/editors/environments constraints and views >> on the world. >> >> So those who choose to advocate for a change. Advocate. Make the sale. >> Or else lets not make the change. >> >> Jimmie >> > > > > -- > Best regards, > Igor Stasenko. -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/default-monospaced-code-font-tp4714433p4714847.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
