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

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From: Paul Hanrahan
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 18:50

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255 is a nice size with some of the existing larger screen terminals. 255 is
also a good buffer size for terminal I/O at a low level.

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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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