DMD 0.154 release

[Georg Wrede]

John C wrote:
> Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:41:30 +1000, Georg Wrede <georg at nospam.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Let's put it this way: if a programmer insists on using a font where 
>>> l,  I, 1, O, 0, etc. have the slightest chance of looking like each 
>>> other,  then that programmer is not one we'd want in the D community.
>>>
>>> I promised Derek to not put down a certain programming language, but  
>>> let's just say, that anyone with a history of C (or C++), can't in 
>>> their  worst nightmares, imagine using a font that doesn't make a 
>>> difference  between 0, O, 1, l, I,,, etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> ROTFLOL ... I went so far as to create a variety of Courier that 
>> changed  the lowercase L to look like the lowercase T (t) but without 
>> the bar, and  put a dot inside the Zero glyph to make it 
>> distinguishable. If anyone  wants it just let me know.
>>
> 
> Consolas nicely distinguishes between the letter O and the number 0. As 
> do DejaVu Mono and Monaco.
> 
> It's just a shame Consolas isn't widely available yet (and requires 
> ClearType to do it justice - which is fine by me, I can't stand looking 
> at a screen without ClearType turned on anyway).

It's not about telling folks what such a font would be. It's all (and 
only) about: _either_ a programmer intuitively goes thorugh the trouble 
(on whatever platform he happens to be on) of finding a font that does 
distinguish the letters, or he doesn't. [Unprovoked, without a hint, or 
advice, or without his teacher, or Bobdamn uncle-in-law demanding it at 
gunpoint.]

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(Ok, it's a major holiday now, so I'm trying to be more frank than on 
regular week-days: I might say that, "if a person is smart enough to 
roam the net enough to stumble on D, then that's a merit in itself. 
Then, if that person sees the point of using D as opposed to [the number 
of] competing languages[like C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby, or Python], then 
that, should be considered an equally solid merit.

Wherefrom follows:(!) we really don't have to tell _that_ guy [ehhhh, 
that _person_ (after all, I'm from the Noric countries, where they let 
women become President(!!!!))], which font he should use? Right?