Re: [TUHS] 80 columns ...

Nemo writes: ... Separate from this, I think that the whole 80 column thing is a bit silly. I have used 132 as by default for a long time now. Would go wider but just because I have always found it worthwhile spending money on the best monitors doesn't mean that everyone else can. Everything including my laptop is now a UHD monitor which rocks! I feel that longer lines work better than one-character variable names. And, longer lines are way more readable than wrapped lines. I have never been fond of the notion that code should be broken up into functions for the purpose of keeping lines short; I feel that code should be broken up into functions if it makes sense to do so, for example if the functions are used more than once. Writing for the limitations of the I/O device doesn't seem to be a good paradigm. In any case, I don't think that being an old UNIX person means that one has to live in the past. There was nothing magic about 80 columns; it was just the technology of the time. Technology has changed, so move on.

Jon