On 6/2/20 9:52 AM, Volker Braun wrote: > I'm with Linus in that the 80 characters limit is an anachronism thats > too restrictive in a time and age where large high-resolution displays > are ubiqitous. There certainly is a "too long" somewhere but its more in > the 100-character region. > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bdc48fa11e46f867ea4d75fa59ee87a7f48be144 >
You shouldn't force yourself to stick to 80 characters when there's a technical reason for the line to be longer, but the argument for the 80-character limit is not some fairy tale about punch cards or PDP-11/VAX terminals. Find a book. How long are the lines? They're roughly the length that millennia of "user interface" research has taught us is most comfortable to read. Depending on the font, the max is around 80. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/9fabe31a-0ad8-c0a3-7837-bb8e18a7a63f%40orlitzky.com.
