Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : akarl
Date : Sat Aug 13 2005 02:59 pm

Joe Butler wrote:
> I'm beginning to wonder if that programmer was a bit
> autistic - he'd adhere religiously to the 80 column programming 'standard'
> that got introduced by the mangler for some arbitary and ill-considered
> reason but would produce entire files with just one single line comment in
> them.

Actually, the "80 column programming standard" is a good one. That code 
which adheres to this standard is nicely displayed on standard terminals 
is one thing, but would you like to read a book that is formatted with 
more than 80 characters per line? Probably not. I think you would have a 
hard time even finding such a book.

August

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