Re: C++: why 80 charachters??
From: John Doe (johndoe_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 04/01/04
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Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:59:59 -0600
Leor Zolman wrote:
> I guess if the result of your editor's word-wrapping algorithm is
> acceptable to you, party down. Will that also be the case, though, with
> everyone who may ever need to view your code?
This might be a problem of the word wrapper not being smart enough with
aligning the indentation, but it's not a flaw in my reasoning.
You mean that the reason for which everybody in the world codes in 80
chars is because nobody spent a couple of hours for implementing the
indentation in the word wrappers?
Please don't say that! :-)
> For me, to be able to fit more than about 130 characters on my
> (1400-pixel-wide) screen would require reducing the font size to something
> my 45-year-old eyes would not enjoy trying to read (I get enough headaches
> as it is, thank you very much). Not to mention the fact that I may want to
> fit another window next to my editor while editing (or at least be able to
> see some portion of it)
Then please try the Lucida Console font for 2 days.
Looks a bit strange at first but after a couple of days you will never
leave that font anymore. It's THE font for programming.
It seems a font for doing OCR: crazily readable after your brain gets
used to it. I guess it can certainly improve your headache. It's
readable up to size 7. I use 9, you can try 10 if you have headaches...
even at size 10 you will definitely go over 130 chars per line even with
side windows
> What about printing?
Yeah it's not intended for printing.
But... who prints the programs anymore anyway?
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