Jim Hall

I love Source Code Pro and have been using it for some time. I find that the letters and numbers are really easy to see and distinguish. I use Source Code Pro exclusively in my GNOME Terminal program.

I've lately gone back to VGA fonts for programming. I grew up programming computers at the "console" before GUIs, so the VGA "throwback" is really comfortable for me. I even modified my Gedit theme to look like an old-school DOS editor. I set the font size so I get about 80 columns if the editor takes up one half of my screen. That seems the right size for me; not too big, not too small.

VGA fonts:
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/

Gedit theme:
http://opensource-usability.blogspot.com/2017/04/a-throwback-theme-for-…

Thanks for the great article!

I taught myself how to write programs in AppleSoft BASIC on the Apple II, but FORTRAN was my first compiled language. I still have the FORTRAN 77 ANSI X3.9 - 1978 book on my bookshelf.

As an undergraduate physics student in the early 1990s, we all learned to write programs in FORTRAN 77 so we could do numerical analysis on our lab data. That seemed standard at the time.

As a research intern at a national lab between my junior and senior years, my mentors discovered I knew FORTRAN. So I got the job to port a FORTRAN IV program to FORTRAN 77 (Fortran 90 had recently been defined, and the lab didn't have the compiler yet). The computed-goto still gives me nightmares when I think about it.