1 Jun
2001
1 Jun
'01
5:52 a.m.
My favourite format for source code listings was the
one adopted by Home
Computer Magazine (formerly 99'er) shortly before they folded. It featured
a nice, dark fixed font, listings for each program were continuous (not
split into dozens of fragments throughout the magazine), and there were
faint background lines showing the columns - very nice for counting spaces.
I never saw another magazine that had anything remotely as nice.
Nice
Cheers,
Mark (whose eyesight has never fully recovered from typing in tiny, blurred
listings 20 years ago).
Aha! It must be proportional fonts in source code that have caused my
eyes to not be as good as they were when I was 20!
OB_CC_Trivia: 1) Was the font of the IBM PC with or without serifs? (90%
answer incorrectly)
2) What was the primary complaint (other than not being enabled) about
the lower case in the original models of the TRS-80?
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com