On Sunday 07 December 2014 23:44:40 Ben Finney did opine
And Gene did reply:
> jtan writes:
> > One reason why you would want max length 79 is because of working
> > with terminals.
>
> That reason is decreasingly relevant as terminals become virtual, in a
> display window that can be much larger
On 12/7/2014 11:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Much more relevant is the ability to have two or even three code windows
side-by-side, for comparison during a merge operation. For this purpose,
a 75–80 column limit is a great help.
Or Idle Shell | Idle editor1 | Idle editor2
Editor 1 has file being b
Chris Angelico writes:
> Sure, a 500-character line is less readable than a 75-character line.
So we agree that merely being able to *display* more text on a line is
not a reason to have arbitrarily-long lines of code. Good!
> But how much difference is there between 79 and, say, 90? I'd say
>
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> But regardless of display technology, the biggest reason to stick to a
> limit like 80 or less is: reader technology. The ability for humans to
> comprehend long lines of text is poor, and there *is* a cognitive point
> beyond which it's not help
jtan writes:
> One reason why you would want max length 79 is because of working with
> terminals.
That reason is decreasingly relevant as terminals become virtual, in a
display window that can be much larger if we choose.
Much more relevant is the ability to have two or even three code windows
