8 Nov
2017
8 Nov
'17
9:55 p.m.
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, ron minnich wrote:
There's a lot of weird lore around use of C
nowadays, a lot of it in my
experience from folks who come from Java. But this w & MASK discussion is
one of the weirder ones.
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 can fit 115x38 in my standard text editor on a 1280x1024 display and
although I often write to the size of the window, I still consider 80
columns, or more correctly *79* columns, the limit that my lines should
not exceed for hysterical reasons (and when I used EDIT in MS-DOS, this
limit was usually 77 but I walked over it all the time).
-uso.