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The Beauty of Programming (2001)

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This is what I love about programming - it is never boring! If it is boring, you can automate the boring parts, which becomes interesting as a goal.

One of the reasons people have become so enamored with computers is that they enable you to experience new worlds you can create, and to learn what’s possible.

Could not have written it better myself.

I forgot Comic Sans existed.

The PDF is in Comic Sans so I've also included another link to the paper that doesn't use Comic Sans https://www.brynmawr.edu/cs/resources/beauty-of-programming

Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/beautyOfProgramming.....

Comic Sans?

... and before you downvote me, ask yourself.. "did I immediately think the same thing?"

Yesss!! What the hell! Comic sans!!

Maybe it’s supposed to be ironic given the title.

I had no idea Comic Sans had ligatures (see the top of page 2 for the fi)

It isn't Comic Sans - the lower-case m is wrong. Comic Sans has a very jaunty and distinctive lower-case m.

I don't know what this actually is, perhaps some open-source stand-in. For some reason I haven't thoroughly researched replacements for Comic Sans.

Looks like the link has changed now anyway, so this is disappointingly moot.

https://www.brynmawr.edu/cs/resources/beauty-of-programming A non Comic Sans version

I think it fits with his current phase of wanting to explore his human side.

Come on, the text is pretty easy on the eye, like a neat hand-print; also, this makes the text look less "formal" (indeed, I have noticed that the way I feel about a text sometimes depends on the style or format it is presented in).

I agree, I much preferred https://www.bowdoin.edu/~ltoma/teaching/beautyOfProgramming....

How did Linus --or whoever generated that pdf-- think that comic sans was a sane font choice for the article?

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