[kujawa]

Reading monospace text sucks.

It's only good for coding for alignment issues. But reading monospace characters for long blocks of text is hard on the eyes. (Not to mention that proportional spacing is more efficient -- you can get more text on a line with roughly the same letter forms.)

[Zev]

I've taken to setting whatever IDE or editor I'm using to have comments in italic Helvetica, rather Menlo, my fixed width font of choice. It makes comments easier to read, and I find myself writing slightly more of them as a result.

[oloolo]

It's not about reading, it's about writing. Many measures in writer came from studying coding programs.

[kujawa]

I dunno about you, but I barely type when I'm coding. I'd guess about 90% of my day is reading and thinking.