Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 04:52:26 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote: > > > What this goes to show is that while 80 is ridiculously low by most > > displays today, > > Not for people who like to has two (or three, or four) windows side-by- > side. Or multiple views of the same document.
There's also the fact that, while the capacity of monitors to display pixels has dramatically increased in recent decades, the capacity of human cognition to scan long lines of text has not increased at all in that time. The 80 character line limit is *not* driven by a limitation of computer technology; it is driven by a limitation of human cognition. For that reason, it remains relevant until human cognition in the general reading population improves. -- \ “Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a | `\ religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.” | _o__) —Anonymous | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
