On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:24:02AM -0000, Matthew Freake wrote:
> Alex wrote:
>
> > <veeg> ppl are always complaining that perl looks ugly, because of the %'s
> > and @'s, but surely that's just because of the font
>
> Which people say that perl looks ugly ? I would think it's people who are
> new to Perl and therefore think it doesn't look like (a) natural language,
> (b) mathsy algebraic stuff or (c) another computer language they know (I
> know Perl looks like C and Sed and Awk and so on, but it's got enough other
> stuff to mean it *doesn't* look like them too). Therefore it looks like
> random characters to them. I'm not sure having a nice font for those
> characters would improve that ?
Java programmers probably who like lots of keywords.
(object.this.that.add.minus.arse).
Some Perl code can look a bit of a mess (here << documents).
A non-proportional font I like is Monotype.com / Andale Mono
(truetype). For when you're sick of courier in editors on windows.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fontpack/default.htm
And I'd also like to recommend a2ps for printing out code on Un*x
platforms.
jp
