Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by iefbr14 on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:17PM
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Take cobol. The data division is highly column based, not mandatory though but you never get any of the columns straight except the first one. It will work but its hard on the eyes.
Take (ibm) assembler, it sometimes needs a continuation character in column 72. Where is column 72 in proportional?
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by rpastuszak on Saturday July 29, 2023 @01:29PM
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hehe, I can live with that, I punch my cards by hand like a true 10x engineer.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by CoastalCoder on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:11PM
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Punch cards??? Luxury!
Why, when I was a lad, we had to punch paper tape by hand! And it wasn't any of this buy-it-by-the-roll stuff either. My da' would send me to the woods, and I'd have to chew a branch for a week to make my own paper!
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by wredue on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:19PM
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Back in my day we had real man’s trees rather than the silly “programmer” soft lad trees. It took us a MONTH to chew our punch cards.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by bratgpttamer on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:07AM
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Real Programmers don't use punch cards; they toggle the programs in directly via front-panel switches (in octal).
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by CoastalCoder on Sunday July 30, 2023 @12:59PM
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Oh, we're talking about real programmers?
Well, real programmers just tweak the bias voltages on the op-amps driving the transistor networks.
And not using the potentiometers that today's "real programmers" use. No sir, when I was a lad...
Re:Ask HN: Anyone using proportional fonts for coding?
by chungy on Saturday July 29, 2023 @10:46PM
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You could always use free format COBOL.
https://gnucobol.sourceforge.io/faq/index.html#do-you-have-a...