Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 06:12:54 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 04.03.2025 04:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Where did 132-column printers come from?

 
From IBM ? - Or S&H ?

>
The point being, the idea that 80 columns is a good line length for
programming is, shall we say, based on doubtful evidence.

Why are you writing that in (indirect) response to a post in which I
already acknowledged that?

If your question about 132-column printers was intended to make a point,
why not just make that point directly?

From upthread, where I summarized the technological background for
80-column lines:

"""
I'll just note that the fact that 80 is an arbitrary number, based on
technologies we no longer use, doesn't automatically mean that it's a
bad rule of thumb for line length.
"""

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