News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by Mozilla. Parent comment

Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by rtpg on Saturday May 24, 2014 @04:38AM (#7792946)
Haskell, despite how people talk about it, isn't necessarily that heavy symbol-wise. Table-based aligning makes haskell code look very good (esp. when dealing with a lot of pattern matching)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday May 24, 2014 @04:53AM (#7792962)
Haskell just looks horrible when set in ASCII at all; where did they come up with \ for lambda? It would definitely benefit aesthetically from at least more Greek use.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by Someone on Saturday May 24, 2014 @08:01AM (#7793164)
It's two thirds of a lowercase lambda: λ vs \
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Fira Sans: a Free, Open Source Typeface Commissioned by M... by seanmcdirmid on Saturday May 24, 2014 @09:13AM (#7793253)
I know, but it's too subtle and makes the code look bizarre. Well, if there were lambdas everywhere, I'm not sure it would look much better...code would begin to feel more like a boring POPL paper.
[ Parent | on HN ]