On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:21:56PM +0100, José Matos wrote: > On Wednesday 04 May 2011 20:00:06 Enrico Forestieri wrote: > > He means that who prefers the 80 chars limit also likes autotools. > > Has he (royal he) read the files created by automake? :-) > > No 80 chars limits anywhere. :-D
I think it was a subtle syllogism on the lines of 1) the people preferring 80 chars limit are more or less the same as those liking autotools (not because of the line length autotools create, but because they are things of the past), i.e. the old-timers 2) until we have 80 chars limit (i.e., until we have old-timers around) we will still use autotools > And FWIW autoconf is a nice tool. No doubt. However, one uses LyX instead of straight LaTeX because in LyX there are so much buttons and menus to explore, while LaTeX would require reading documentation. The same is true as regards autotools and cmake, I think. So, even if LaTeX can let you do more powerful things, you prefer using LyX... -- Enrico
