From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 12:23:34 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] C question for the historians In-Reply-To: References: <20171108181420.517711F949@orac.inputplus.co.uk> <20171108190540.GA7241@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20171108202334.GA14526@mcvoy.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.