21 Nov
2005
21 Nov
'05
5:34 a.m.
Am Sonntag, 20. November 2005 12:28 schrieb Jesper Louis Andersen:
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The best argument I can come up with when advocating lines of 80 chars for most programming code is subtle, but important:
Code is easier to read for me when it is printed on good old paper. a2ps(1) is magnificient, but it takes 80 chars only if you want two pages on a single A4. Quite a number of projects violates the 80 column principle with the result it is unreadable on print.
Hmm, printing code on paper isn't good for the environment.
The human eye is not good at scanning long lines.
This is a good argument.
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Best wishes, Wolfgang