HTML source code?? (was: Call for Resources for CDC 6000/Cyber 70 Series Emulator

From: Mark Gregory <gregorym_at_cadvision.com>
Date: Fri Jun 1 11:36:48 2001

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From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: HTML source code?? (was: Call for Resources for CDC 6000/Cyber 70
Series Emulator


> > -- Derek (hoping for watchpoints or formatted display of
> > the source code -- i.e., with italics or proportional spacing)
>
> Certain styling of formatted source code could be really nice.
>
> But IMAGINE the abuses! It could be as bad as the introduction of HTML
to
> e-mail.
>
> Italics, bold-face, even different sizes of fonts could be useful.
> BUT, ... it was well more than 20 years ago (in computer magazines), that
> people found out what a DISASTER proportional spacing is for source code.
> ("How many spaces do there need to be there?"
> Am I the only one here who is old enough to remember how bad that was?
>

My favourite format for source code listings was the one adopted by Home
Computer Magazine (formerly 99'er) shortly before they folded. It featured
a nice, dark fixed font, listings for each program were continuous (not
split into dozens of fragments throughout the magazine), and there were
faint background lines showing the columns - very nice for counting spaces.
I never saw another magazine that had anything remotely as nice.

Cheers,
Mark (whose eyesight has never fully recovered from typing in tiny, blurred
listings 20 years ago).
Received on Fri Jun 01 2001 - 11:36:48 BST