What are your favorite fonts for Lisp programming?
Any monospaced font that supports polytonic Greek.
Computer Modern
polytonic Greek
Why do you need that for Lisp programming?
Computer Modern
Why do you use a variable-width font to write code?
IBM Plex Mono
>>4
My functions always have Greek names and without diacritics it doesn't feel right.
comic sans, because lisp is a joke and I'm tired of pretending its not
>>8
Sounds like you haven't paid for your LispWorks or Allegro Common Lisp license.
>>5
Because code should be beautiful. Who knew beauty better than the masters of the Italian renaissance? And what did they eat? That's right, they ate spaghetti. I want my code to resemble their culinary art. For who indents their code? Python programmers certainly do. And what is a python? It is a foul serpent. Writing python on an Apple computer was the original sin figuratively and literally. Spaghetti lisp is Dante Alighieri's choice.
Because code should be beautiful.
It's strange... perplexing...
A little flummoxed indeed...
Do you, perhaps, perchance–just a moment, if it's certainly not a bother–yes, would you mind sharing with us all this "Beautiful Code" that is still around, gazed upon and admired for years to come, of the same as those Renaissance masters you so admire?
It's almost–no, and yet it can't be anyway else–it's almost as if _all code washes away in less than a year._
Oh, how all programmers bother to idolize text strings do believe–with a suspended reason–that they're laying bricks for cathedrals!
It was never the case!
Are they swindled??
Alas, no cathedrals in view.
Deprecated.
Perhaps ruins instead most apt.
Let us both browse the RUINS of programming through the ages–almost 80 years or more to explore!
Such longevity!
Such beauty!
Even operating systems will be replace in time, and they certainly don't evoke a feeling of 'beauty' unless you've quite fondness for kernel code.
Amusing, laughable!!
A pity almost!
That almost all code lain will never–NEVER–last.
It will be replaced.
It is the spaghetti you consume, not lock up and reason about its texture and forbearance–it'll rot either way.
What's the use in such "beauty" when it cannot even stand upon itself in five years hence?
And before one spindles off about how beauty can be fragile, I would like to remind anyone who would ever bother to read tgat beauty and strength is congruent, not at ends.
The interpreters in SICP certainly count. People will keep marvelling at their beauty until the end of computing.
If the interpreters in SICP is the best we admit–keeping in mind that we've 80 years to pick and prod examples from–then it only reinforces the original premise.
Lisp is esoteric and irrelevant enough that SICP rewrote their concepts in JavaScript!
I wonder what the next language is in store. In either case, viewership has dwindled dramatically.
Most programmers do not read SICP.
Most do not care.
I do not see any swath of viewers lining up.
Meanwhile any art college swoon time and again over works that last centuries.
Perhaps because such works are closer to the essence of things?
I find it dull either way.
Is that the best you can summon, textboard.org?
Have the RUINS finally settled in your psyche?
Can we put to bed the absurd comparison of programming and art and their place in the world?
One may certainly admire the buzzy traps now infecting minds near you, X and friends–but perhaps its too much to bear that these buzzy traps are written in things such as SCALA. Such as PYTHON.
And they'll deprecate too.
Carry on~!
The original MIT LispM font, what else?
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051032/http://www.eurogaran.com/downloads/lispmfont/
>>11
gcd is ~2,400 years old, far predating cathedrals
Any serif font that the ancients would have been proud to inscribe into stone tablets to last for an eternity.
>>13
I think SICPJS is more or less equivalent to the crude structures the later Egyptians built in attempt to imitate the Great Pyramids.
Iosevka Comfy
https://git.sr.ht/~protesilaos/iosevka-comfy