Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:29:29 +0000
Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:

On 27/02/2025 15:47, David Brown wrote:

 
Newspaper columns are often much shorter - 30 to 40 characters.  So
why is that? 

 
Because newspapers are basically in portrait format, so long thin
columns fit well.
 
Computer terminals, back in the day, were basically square,

My impression is that even in early days 5:4 was more common than
square.

so 80
columns was often a hard limit.
 
Now you have larger landscape screens, with windows that can be
stretched as wide as you like.
 

For many years I use 1200x1920 (yes, portait) as my main monitor at
work.
Turning Full HD 90 degrees does not work as well - 1080 is too narrow.
In this case 11% difference matters.