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Perhaps that may be what the question means. Some of us aren't as nitpicky about such things as others (I'm in with the nitpickers though).

courier new. thinking of finding a new fixed width font.
edit: it's snoot now. The font preview on the page is too big. The actual font works much better.

Courier New.

Courier New

Lucida Console, 10pt.

Lucida Console. And I agree, the poll question should be edited a little to be correct.

Default, which happens to be courier new.

Fixedsys

I use ProggySquare, ProggyClean, and ProggyTiny. Courier New is for conformist weenies. Real Programmers use ProggySquare. Great Programmers use ProggyTiny and get laser-eye surgery just so they can read their code.

But seriously, the big draws for me are:

--> semicolon and colons are clearly distinguishable;
--> curly brackets are markedly different from straight brackets;
--> angle brackets are markedly different from parentheses;
--> the asterisk '*' is vertically centered rather than being near the top of the line;
--> readable even at small sizes;
--> zero is clearly distinguishable from capital O;
--> exclamation points are distinguishable from capital I and bar '|' characters;
--> adjacent single quotes are distinguishable from a single double quote;
--> lowercase L is impossible to confuse with lowercase I, 1, or bar '|' characters.

Give it a try. It's free, so it can't hurt to fire up your favorite IDE with it. Available in bitmap, TT, and pcf. Happy coding.

Maybe I'm not one to talk, but surely this is a little too trivial to be given a thread?

And kSquared, do you know you spent 1/2millionth of your life typing that out (assuming it took 5 minutes)!?

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Original post by kSquared I use ProggySquare, ProggyClean, and ProggyTiny. Courier New is for conformist weenies. Real Programmers use ProggySquare. Great Programmers use ProggyTiny and get laser-eye surgery just so they can read their code.

No no no, you've got it all wrong. Courier New is for lazy weenies who don't care enough to change the default font. There, glad we cleared that up.

/is a non-conformist lazy weenie

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Original post by red_sodium Maybe I'm not one to talk, but surely this is a little too trivial to be given a thread? And kSquared, do you know you spent 1/2millionth of your life typing that out (assuming it took 5 minutes)!?

Damn, 5 minutes is 1/2 millionth of our lives? Holy crap we've got alot of time on our hands.

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And kSquared, do you know you spent 1/2millionth of your life typing that out (assuming it took 5 minutes)!?

Aren't you being a bit presumptuous by assuming I'm only going to live 19.01 years? By your calculations, it's only another 10 months till I kick the bucket! ;)

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Original post by kSquared Quote: And kSquared, do you know you spent 1/2millionth of your life typing that out (assuming it took 5 minutes)!? Aren't you being a bit presumptuous by assuming I'm only going to live 19.01 years? By your calculations, it's only another 10 months till I kick the bucket! ;)

Well, isn't the average life span around 77 years nowadays? That's about 40 million minutes. However, most people agree that sleeping wastes approximately 1/3 of our lives. That would put you right around 26 million minutes or so. Either way, his approximation was a little low.

Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 8 pts

Last time I opened my IDE/Compiler to program was so long ago I don't even know... [sad]I use BloodShed's C++ IDE/Compiler, whatever the default is on that is my fontface [smile]

I think I'm the only one that likes the visual c++ 6 font more than the new one's font; Courier r0x your s0x. It's actually not that I dislike Courier New, it's just that the space between lines is enormous compared to the original. I'm only running at 1024x768, and personally can't stand it, ah well. To each his own. [smile]

And I think you're looking for IDE here instead of compiler, but it's been said already, whatever, we all understood you.

EDIT: After checking out the Proggy fonts kSquared posted, I have to say those are pretty damn good, I've switched it for now, we'll see if it stands the test of time. I'm using ProggyClean, FWIW.

- Jordan

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Original post by superpig Lucida Console

OCR A Extended 9



All characters are easy to tell apart from similar characters. I got hooked after someone recommended it to me, although it doesn't work well with UI since it's fixed width.