[Haskell-cafe] If you'd design a Haskell-like language, what would you do different?

[Hans Aberg]

On 21 Dec 2011, at 04:27, Ashok Gautham wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:17:32PM +0100, Hans Aberg wrote:
>> The monospace characters U+1D670-1D6A3 might be used for keywords. Font:
>>  http://www.stixfonts.org/
> 
> I feel that monospace fonts should be used for all of programming. A
> language could use Unicode symbols, but if it enforces typography, it
> is destined to win an award for being really unusable

I have some books from the 1980s which does not use monospace; it seems to be a later movement. Using it for all symbols would be awkward.

Hans