Matt, you took the words right out of my mouth! The fonts that are being used will have a big difference in readability, as will font size, foreground and background coloring, etc. It would be interesting to see if anyone has done a serious study of this type though, especially if they studied it over the course of several hours (I'm getting older, and I've noticed that after about 8-10 hours of coding it doesn't matter what I'm looking at, I can't focus enough to read it, but I don't know when I start to degrade, nor do I know if different fonts would help me degrade more slowly) Thanks, Cem Karan On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 9:03 PM, Matt Arcidy <marcidy@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 5:35 PM, Mikhail V <mikhailwas@gmail.com> wrote:
to be pedantic - ReallyLongDescriptiveIdentifierNames has also an issue with "I" which might confuse because it looks same as little L. Just to illustrate that choice of comparison samples is very sensitive thing. In such a way an experienced guy can even scam the experimental subjects by making samples which will show what he wants in result.
I love this discussion, but I think anything that isn't included in a .py file would have to be outside the scope, at least of the alpha version :). I am really interested in these factors in general, however. Now I'm surprised no one asks which font each other are using when determining readability.
"serif? are you mad? no wonder!" "+1 on PEP conditional on mandatory yellow (#FFEF00) keyword syntax highlighting in vim"
-Matt
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