From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 3 12:30:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from maxim.gba.oz.au (gba.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.249]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93CF837BA5D for ; Mon, 3 Jul 2000 12:30:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 99747 invoked by uid 1001); 3 Jul 2000 16:09:16 +1000 X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 2.02.01 12-Dec-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Message-Id: Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 16:09:16 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Wes Peters Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: style(9) References: <20000630114924.A78968@mithrandr.moria.org> <395D8FD7.484D9896@softweyr.com> In-reply-to: <395D8FD7.484D9896@softweyr.com> of Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:29:43 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters writes: > Or simply get a wider editor. Seriously. Writing code in 80 columns is > an anachronism. No it's not. It's a widely-accepted fact that humans have difficulty reading lines with more than about 70 characters in them -- this difficulty increases with age (and is probably also an issue for people with impaired vision, although I'm no expert on that). It therefore makes sense to limit any textual material, whether it's program source code or not, to less than 80 columns unless it's for personal use or is being displayed by some tool that sets widths according to user preferences -- but that does not apply to program sources. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message