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mhoye

Look, I'm just saying that in the end, all those people who said "if code is hard to write it should be hard to read" stepped to the threshold and turned away in cowardice. They never fully embraced their iconoclasm, could not will themselves to push their ideology to its logical conclusion. But here, today, I have lit the path they could not bring themselves even to set foot on.

Bring me Comic Sans, Papyrus, Impact, Curlz MT and Wingdings. If code was hard to write, it should hurt to see.

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Mark Eichin

@mhoye
Now do this with APL as the base language...

FJ!!

@mhoye Back in the late 90s I set my terminal font to something whimsical like comic sans but actually readable, to trick my brain into not taking code as seriously as if I was reading a textbook. I thought it would make debugging easier because I subliminally would be more skeptical of what I was reading.

Honestly I think it worked.

Matthew Miller

@fj @mhoye

Comic sans for code that doesn't have test coverage.

Ben Zanin

@mhoye RENDER THE <BLINK> TAGS INSIDE SOURCE CODE YOU COWARDS

Rob Ricci

@mhoye this is a subtoot of that new github font isn't it

prozacchiwawa

@mhoye css classes should absolutely be significant in identifiers.

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