6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
11:13 p.m.
I’m going to chime in on pro-80-columns here, because with the text a comfortable size to
read (although this is getting less true as my eyes age), I can read an entire 80-column
line without having to sweep my eyes back and forth.
I can’t, and never could, do that at 132.
As a consequence, I read much, much faster with 80-column-ish text blocks.
I also think there is something to the “UNIX is verbal” and “UNIX nerds tend to be
polyglots often with a surprising amount of liberal arts background of one kind or
another,” argument. That may, however, merely be confirmation bias.
Adam