On 2011-07-22, John Gordon <gor...@panix.com> wrote: > In <98u00kfnf...@mid.individual.net> Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> writes: >> You can fit much more code per unit of horizontal space with a >> proportionally spaced font. As a result, that issue, while >> valid, is significantly reduced. > > Is it? I assume one major reason for the 80-character limit is > to help the poor sod who will eventually get stuck working with > your code on an 80-column fixed width terminal window.
It's probably much better for making hard-copies of code than for sharing directly, that is true. Your recipient would be forced to us a similar font. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
