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

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From: McKown, John
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 15:37

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Could be. <but I don't say which it could be - grin>.

The only language in which I have ever used a long line (about 100
chars) was C. I sometimes tend to be "wordy". That particular program
had one logical line which was 5 lines in length, each about 100 chars.
Or course, when you are using structures with long names and variable
within them with long names.


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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.
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> Maybe it's just me.
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