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

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From: glen herrmannsfeldt
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:21

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"McKown, John" <john.mckown@uiciinsctr.com> wrote:

> 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.

As printers with 8.5in wide paper and a nice readable 10cpi
font still print 80 characters per line, 80 still seems nice.

Mentioning long variable names reminds me that I am still
interested in finding the ALGOL W compiler.  The manual is
available on the web, but no copies, source or load module,
have been found that I know of.  While it accepts 80 column
input it allows variable names up to 255 characters long.
That was the first the I knew of that accepted names
anywhere near that long.

As I understand, it was written in PL/360 which makes it
only slightly off topic.  If anyone knows where a copy is,
there are many people who would be interested to know
about it.

-- glen

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