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"Ligatures in programming fonts—a misguided trend I was hoping would collapse under its own illogic."

The same could be said about so many programming conventions most people take for granted. Sometimes programmers are their own worst enemies. "just because you can doesn't mean you should" is probably the #1 rule of programming, at least for me, and ligatures definitely fit into that category.




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