Suggestion for correcting the IDE's script editor

[Dennis Brown]

Before Apple made WYSIWYG (what you see (on the screen) is what you  
get (on the printer)) the norm, and even before that when displays  
were monospaced character (not graphics) oriented, and printers were  
also monospaced with just one character set, straight printing was an  
ugly unformatted dump of characters.  It was not a pretty sight.  It  
took a lot of work and formatting characters or commands to make a  
printout look pretty (formatted for readability).  So the term pretty  
printing meant the process of printing with the formatting.  However,  
I haven't actually heard the term used in the last 20+ years until  
today.

Dennis

On Jul 1, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>
>> Eric,
>>
>> Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a  
>> translation thing?
>>
>> It just sounds a little funny.
>>
>
> It's really called that.
> I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s ....  
> certainly it was in common use by the time I got involved in  
> computers (1970), though it was still a "feature" then; it has  
> become so ubiquitous that the word itself is less frequently needed  
> these days - everyone knows programs should be laid out sensibly  
> (even if they don't agree on what is sensible :-)
>
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