On 12-6-2017 16:01, Francois Labreque wrote:

>> Am 2017-05-30 03:57, also sprach clipka:
>>> Am 29.05.2017 um 22:11 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>>>> I will try Consolas for a while starting now. So far I already miss
>>>> Courier New. :(
>>>
>>> I don't at all(*).
>> Ok, I'm sold.  I've always used the default font because the last times
>> I tried a "cool" font, it messed up somebody's measuring something
>> somewhere.  But then, that may be 10 years ago, now... ;)
>>
>> I would never write a 0 without a slash, yet I accept this in my code
>> editor? (I wouldn't write a 7 without a dash either, why isn't this in a
>> font?)
>>
> Speaking of Which...  I recently learned the origin of the dash in the 7...
>
> Moses was coming down from Mt. Sinai with the two stone tables with the
> Ten Commandments on them and started to tell them to the Israelites: "1.
> You shall have no other gods before Me.
> 2. You shall not make idols.
> 3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.
> 4. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
> 5. Honor your father and your mother.
> 6. You shall not murder.
> 7. You shall not commit adultery.
> ...Then someone from the audience yelled: "Cross the seven off! Cross
> the seven off!"
>

Absolutely convincing! ;-)

-- 
Thomas

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