December 08, 2004
Zero treatment
Last year I released a fixed-width font for programmers called Triskweline. The feedback I received on Triskweline so far has been very positive, except for the few who keep insisting that Triskweline miserably fails the idiocy test for programmer fonts because it doesn't slash zeroes.
You know, like mixing up zeroes and the capital "O" character would be an issue that ever occurs in your daily programming routine. I have to think very hard to even come up with a word that features a capital "O" in code. Obviously, words beginning with an "O" are out of the equation as most languages don't allow you to begin a word with a numeric character.
Alright, I remember one: CardStateObserver. I immediately see how one could mistakingly write CardState0bserver instead. Happens all the time.
Maybe I simply see Triskweline as a way to discriminate against all the people who had been practicing the art of l33t-speech at some point in their lives. Which I think of as a noble intent.
Comments
You miss the actual point, which is 1Ox more likely to be a problem.
