On 2016-04-19, Pete Forman <petef4+use...@gmail.com> wrote: > My question asks why monospace is used for the text.
Well, I always use a monospaced font for code because I find it helps readability for things like tables of data, block comments, and lines of code that have some sort of parallel structure that I want to be obvious to the reader. > And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest of > world has moved on is rather backward: > http://blog.languager.org/2012/10/html-is-why-mess-in-programming-syntax.html The same reason humans use written and spoken language rather than just drawing pictures, pointing, and grunting? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! What a COINCIDENCE! at I'm an authorized "SNOOTS gmail.com OF THE STARS" dealer!! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
