Current survey
"What's your compiler's fontface?"
For most compilers this doesn't make any sense. Maybe "What's the fontface of your IDE or text editor?" would be better.
Perhaps that may be what the question means. Some of us aren't as nitpicky about such things as others (I'm in with the nitpickers though).
courier new. thinking of finding a new fixed width font.
edit: it's snoot now. The font preview on the page is too big. The actual font works much better.
edit: it's snoot now. The font preview on the page is too big. The actual font works much better.
I use ProggySquare, ProggyClean, and ProggyTiny. Courier New is for conformist weenies. Real Programmers use ProggySquare. Great Programmers use ProggyTiny and get laser-eye surgery just so they can read their code.
But seriously, the big draws for me are:
--> semicolon and colons are clearly distinguishable;
--> curly brackets are markedly different from straight brackets;
--> angle brackets are markedly different from parentheses;
--> the asterisk '*' is vertically centered rather than being near the top of the line;
--> readable even at small sizes;
--> zero is clearly distinguishable from capital O;
--> exclamation points are distinguishable from capital I and bar '|' characters;
--> adjacent single quotes are distinguishable from a single double quote;
--> lowercase L is impossible to confuse with lowercase I, 1, or bar '|' characters.
Give it a try. It's free, so it can't hurt to fire up your favorite IDE with it. Available in bitmap, TT, and pcf. Happy coding.
But seriously, the big draws for me are:
--> semicolon and colons are clearly distinguishable;
--> curly brackets are markedly different from straight brackets;
--> angle brackets are markedly different from parentheses;
--> the asterisk '*' is vertically centered rather than being near the top of the line;
--> readable even at small sizes;
--> zero is clearly distinguishable from capital O;
--> exclamation points are distinguishable from capital I and bar '|' characters;
--> adjacent single quotes are distinguishable from a single double quote;
--> lowercase L is impossible to confuse with lowercase I, 1, or bar '|' characters.
Give it a try. It's free, so it can't hurt to fire up your favorite IDE with it. Available in bitmap, TT, and pcf. Happy coding.
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