Comment by iaabtpbtpnn

Judging by the other replies I must be alone here, but I can't stand these ligatures. I don't even like them on blog posts, especially that awful ostentatious s-t ligature (nobody writes like that!). But in that context I can tolerate the whimsy. For a fixed-width programming font, though? Where individual characters frequently completely modify the meaning of a statement? The absolute last thing I want is for any of the characters to be obfuscated. I want to see exactly the symbols that I can type on my keyboard to reproduce the text, not some typographer's notion of good aesthetics.