Re: Archaic 80-column format (was coding guidelines)

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From: WM
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:17

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When I started writing PL/I way back after several years of FORTRAN and
assembler, I tried to make myself use the longer line length (255?)
available but found I didn't like it -- I think it has to do with what
the eye can see at once. (I'm sure there are studies on this.) I ended
up writing perhaps 400k lines of PL/I and never wrote lines more than
72 characters.

Maybe it's just me.

MW

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