From: Jerry Feldman
> I go back to the key punch days when we used 80 column punch cards. I also
There's a bunch of stuff about the physiology of how people read.
Books, over history, have evolved to have lines of a particular length,
when they could have been printed in any proportion, because l
A character I used to work with wrote his kernel code with as few spaces as
possible and with as few newlines as possible.
His 'C' code was 80+/-2 characters to a line long.
One of his sections that I was asked to look at when on the screen was a
full block of code that scrolled on and on and aft
I go back to the key punch days when we used 80 column punch cards. I also
worked on a system when we had a terminal oriented input that had to be
converted to punch card format for transmission. While most computer
languages today don't have a line length restriction some standards
still apply.
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