Tim Chase wrote: > On 07/17/2011 08:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> Roy Smith wrote: >>> We don't have that problem any more. It truly boggles my >>> mind that we're still churning out people with 80 column >>> minds. I'm willing to entertain arguments about readability >>> of long lines, but the idea that there's something magic >>> about 80 columns is hogwash. >> >> I agree! Which is why I set my line width to 78 columns. > > Bah, when I started programming > on the Apple ][+, we had no > lower-case and a 40-column limit > on the TV display. > But you try and tell the young > people today that... > and they won't believe ya'.
40 columns? Luxury! My first computer was a Hewlett Packard 28S handheld programmable calculator, with 22 columns[1] and 32 entire kilobytes of memory! (I don't include my previous programmable calculator, a Casio, or was it a Canon, as the programming language included wasn't Turing Complete.) [1] I think it was 22 columns -- that's what my HP 48GX has, and I'm sure the 28S screen was no larger. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
