On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:57:20 -0400 Robert William Fuller <hydrologiccycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The 80 column rule is retarded. None of this code needs to fit on punch > cards, nor is it COBOL. There are legitimate reasons to have lines > longer than 80 columns. No matter how simple a program is, it is likely > to have an expression that is longer than 80 characters. Most people's > displays are wider than 80 columns these days. Vertical real estate is > at a greater premium than horizontal real estate these days with wider > aspect ratio monitors, which better approximate the human field of > vision. Why make people scan more than one line for a single expression? > A printed page is still 80 column with very readable characters. The human vision may be better approximated by wide screen monitors but human reading vision not. That's why nobody publish a printed newspaper or a book in a "wide-page" format. Even more, one can hardly find a newspaper which has no columns (each line as wide as a whole page). My two cents, Krzysztof ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dzwon taniej na zagraniczne komorki! Sprawdz >> http://link.interia.pl/f1f26 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
