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2010/1/17 Christian Faulhammer <fauli@g.o>: |
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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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> We don't talk about source code but continous text even if having some |
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> mark-up around. And best readability for such text is around 60 |
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> characters per line, languages with long words may have more. |
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And the *generated* text is wrapped that way, or however else we want |
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it to be. We're discussing the source code, however, which is a whole |
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other thing, and none of your readability studies for printed texts |
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are relevant for it. |
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>> This bikeshed does not need repainting bright pink with orange spots. |
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> And you don't want us to argue about the colour, right? |
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I don't want you to go and break 'git blame' etc and screw around with |
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something that doesn't need changing, yes. The not-quite-arbitrary |
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decision of "what fits on my laptop screen" that was originally made |
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is equally as good as or better than any alternative. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |