From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] C question for the historians
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:23:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108202334.GA14526@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYKVyTAmOTT944md+0Lmg-yN=2=qwrDm+n3p_6+QvQ2JFg@mail.gmail.com>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 16:17 Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 16:27 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-09 10:17 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-11-08 18:14 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-08 18:34 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 19:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-08 20:13 ` ron minnich
2017-11-08 20:23 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2017-11-08 20:32 ` Ron Natalie
2017-11-08 20:39 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-08 20:41 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-09 1:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-09 1:41 ` Chet Ramey
2017-11-09 1:49 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-11-08 20:43 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-08 20:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 20:36 ` Warner Losh
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