Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 16:53:52 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199605290723.QAA07068@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199605290629.IAA17629@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 29, 96 08:29:09 am
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J Wunsch stands accused of saying: > > As Michael Smith wrote: > > > Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) > > That doesn't make it better readable. Any text with more than ~ 60 > ... 70 characters per line is unreadable. Add 5-6 levels of indentation (about the sane limit) at ~25 characters, and you have about 100 columns. Take my point? > Not to speak about the eye-damaging small fonts required (not all of > us can afford 29-inch monitors). I used a VT220 clone with a 12" screen at 132 columns on a daily basis for about a year with no great trouble, and anyone who knows me will attest to my crapped-out eyesight. Then again, it's narrow-minded thinking like that that's kept monitor prices relatively stable while the price of everything else has plummeted. The thought of a 14" monitor on a PC these days makes my skin crawl. > cheers, J"org -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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