![]() There was no easy way, or no way at all, to change the font. When I started learning C (and decided I didn’t like it and did not continue) it was in the 1980s on machines without GUIs. You generally can’t change the font there. C and Unix in general were designed for text-only terminals – not terminal emulators, hardware terminals. No, changing the font isn’t always an option. I agree that this isn’t the core problem with C readability, but I think it’s a problem with it, and one that is seldom mentioned. Well, I definitely am a beginner in programming terms, so, reluctantly, OK. Surely we can fix this on most editors, and chose the font accordingly? Last resort I guess, but still worth considering. This has little to do with harder to read. But we get used to it, until eventually shorter symbols wins out.Ĭ and C-type languages are famously hard to read ![]() One character is less readable than a word.įor beginners maybe.
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