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curryhoward | 2 years ago

> Comic Sans is perfect for setting children’s activity timetables that are displayed in a school playground. It’s perhaps not as appropriate for announcing scientific breakthroughs.

Simon Peyton Jones would beg to differ. :)

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dllthomas|2 years ago

I enjoyed his talk on adding lambdas to Excel, in general, but one particular bright spot was when someone asked why the slides weren't Comic Sans and he explained (my paraphrase...) that he had to give the talk outside Haskell circles and the rest of the world doesn't love him enough to forgive Comic Sans.