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2010/1/17 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> Oh heck no. There's no excuse for using 70 or 80 columns for source |
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>> code any more. My old laptop can fit 100 across the screen |
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>> comfortably, which is much cleaner to work with. |
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> Some people use several windows side by side, and the natural width of |
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> these windows is 80 columns because almost all code adheres to it. |
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Almost all code does not adhere to it. 80 columns is a harmful legacy |
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that needs to be abandoned now that we are no longer limited by 1970s |
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terminals. |
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> And we are talking about LaTeX source code that is mostly human |
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> readable language. Readability suffers if lines have more than 60 or |
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> 70 characters. |
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Except that we're using fixed width fonts and reading non-hyphenated |
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source code, and we are reading it on a screen, not in print. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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