From: bakul@bitblocks.com (Bakul Shah)
Subject: [TUHS] C question for the historians
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 12:43:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171108204334.23B46156E7D8@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:13:31 +0000." <CAP6exYKVyTAmOTT944md+0Lmg-yN=2=qwrDm+n3p_6+QvQ2JFg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 08 Nov 2017 20:13:31 +0000 ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
ron minnich writes:
>
> 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.
Put me in the 80 column column! Very wide screens have the
same issue as moden webpages which are content light and white
space heavy arctic look. With 80 columns you can almost scan
top to bottom without moving eye focus left to right too much.
The 4k monitors are for opening *multiple* 80 column windows :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 20:43 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
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 [this message]
2017-11-08 20:55 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-11-08 20:36 ` Warner Losh
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