Subj : No more 80 columns...
To   : Sean Dennis
From : August Abolins
Date : Tue Jun 02 2020 22:38:00

Hello Sean!

** On Tuesday 02.06.20 - 18:08, Sean Dennis wrote to All:

 SD>    Simon Sharwood, APAC Editor

 SD>    Linux kernel overlord Linus Torvalds has railed against 80-
 SD>    character-lines    as a de facto programming standard..

An 80-char width is more confortable to read than something twice as wide  
for example.  In programming I'd always scale down the width of a window  
and let the code wrap.  For reading documents, books, etc.. wider lines  
would get uncomfortable, fast.


 SD>    People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient
 SD> for    people who have better resources.


Heheheh.. BBSing doesn't have a problem with that!  LOL



  ../|ug

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