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> 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.

Not sure about that. The GoF Design Pattern's book, arguably one the
most influential software development books in the last ten years,
came out in January of 1995. The authors accumulated their OO
knowledge from work done is C++ and Smalltalk years before that. I bet
that knowledge is still valuable, even for a Java development project,
no?

Give me a good software developer with 3 months of Java over a so-so
developer with four years of Java any day of the week. Languages are
much easier to learn then sound development skills.

> 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.

OK - if you are going to compare code to advertisements, then I don't
even know how to respond. That really makes no sense at all.

The only thing that needs to be conveyed in the code IS the code. You
don't need a pretty, sexy font to add "meaning" to it. There IS a
reason proportional fonts are used. It is so that the code is always
displayed consistently. This allows the meaning of the code to come
across as clear as possible. (This is also the reason I would argue
that tabs should never be used - for consistency's sake. But that is
another thing altogether).

By the way, do you write code in non-proportional fonts? Do you put
the class names in a 12-point font, while the rest of the code is in a
10-point font? To you put the REALLY important parts of the code in
red, italics? Have you ever written code before?

Ryan