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Ryan Breidenbach <ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com> schrieb:

>> Computer programmers are the most conservative people I ever met.
>> Maybe thats because their practical knowledge is mostly worthless a
>> year later.
>> But to let survive deficiencies like non-proportional fonts (designed
>> for mechanical typewriters, not for any practical reason) for
>> decades is beginning to look absurd.
>>
>> Bye
>> Hauke Ingmar
>
> Not really sure what you mean by either of these comments:
>
> ... practical knowledge is mostly worthless a year later.

No one cares for skills you learned for a tool or an api that is not
used anymore. And things change, this is why this job is about constant
learning.
And my perception is that this is just *why* people stick to the things
they know a lot more. Today you are the best in your metier, tomorrow
someone who is half as old and has nearly no experience is still better
at the tasks that are needed then. (That is, if you concentrate solely
on technical skills and disregard others like teamwork or business
skills.)

Ok, a year maybe is too short, but let it be five, which even is not a
very long time.

> ... deficiencies like non-proportional fonts.

Ever seen non-proportional fonts outside of computers or mechanical
typewriters? There *is* a reason why they are not used.

Apart from that a text in proportinal font can carry more information at
a page, this is of perception. The more information a symbol carries on
different layers, the better it is readable. The space used is a very
significant information which can be perceived at a glance. By the way,
this is why serif fonts are used in long text.
A little different is this ad headlines and ads, which are normally
'read' at once and not character by character. Here a sans serif font is
appropriate.

Bye
Hauke Ingmar