6 Nov
2020
6 Nov
'20
9:40 p.m.
Clem,
It figures. I should have known there was a reason for the shorter lines
other than display. Conventions are sticky and there appears to be a
generation gap. I use single spaces between sentences, but my ancestors
used 2... who knows why? :).
Will
On 11/6/20 9:07 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Will, I do still the same thing, but the reason for 72
for email being
that way is still card-based. In FORTRAN the first column defines if
the card is new (a blank), a comment (a capital C), no zero a
'continuation' of the last card. But column 73-80 were 'special' and
used to store sequence #s (this was handy when you dropped your card
deck, card sorters could put it back into canonical order). So
characters in those columns were typically ignored. Thus when "Model
28 ASR" (a.k.a. ASR-28) created it had 72 columns. It's interesting
that when its follow on the Model 33 was created, it actually had 74,
but most SW configured it to 72 [search for a manual on bit savers or
the like if you want the details].
IIRC, the original DEC 'Glass TTY' - the VT-05 was 72, but later
terminals like the VT-52 were 80 columns, as was the ADM 3A.
The one thing I will give the 'tyranny of 80-columns" is when I look
at code it starts to break that line size by a lot, I often think that
is a bell-weather of something that needs to be rewritten and
simplified, and/or the abstraction might not be right. Like,
most/many rules there >>are<< often break exceptions, but when I do
look code with really long lines, I admit I am suspect.
Clem
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 8:21 AM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com
<mailto:will.senn@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 11/6/20 12:34 AM, Rob Pike wrote:
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a625b919163e76c391f2865d1f956c0f16d90f83
<https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a625b919163e76c391f2865d1f956c0f16d90f83>
<https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a625b919163e76c391f2865d1f956c0f16d90f83
<https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a625b919163e76c391f2865d1f956c0f16d90f83>>
Hilarious. I use fixed font - Monaco 14. But, 80 columns? not on your
life. I hate wrapped text output, if I can avoid it. That said, I
set my
soft word wrap in the text editor at 72 :). My convention comes from
early email though, not punched cards.
Will
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