On 2010-08-20, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Of course source code is written in a monospaced typeface, which is a >> little wider and consequently fewer characters per page. > > There was a fling a while ago with typesetting code in > proportional spaced type. I think some of the "Effective C++" > series from Addison-Wesley did that. Yuck.
It's probably influenced by The C++ Programming Language. Stroustrup likes it. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
