8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
9:23 p.m.
For me one of the worst is the 80-column requirement
that came from out of
I don't know where. Let's see, we're all getting 4k monitors, and yet
somehow
80 columns is how we have to write code? Hollerith would be proud.
I'm an 80 column person, I like it for side by side diffs, stuff like that.
I also read very very fast by reading down the center and using peripheral
vision for either side (hockey habits die hard). I can't do that with much
wider than 80 column.
I had a guy working for me who started to argue with me and caught himself:
"I work for you, so it's 80 columns. When you work for me it won't
be."
Fair enough.