Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:29:44 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, grog@lemis.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Indentation styles Message-ID: <199605290359.NAA05697@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20757.833304229@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 28, 96 10:23:49 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > 8 is too much but we're stuck with it. There is something to be said > > for the discipline required to minimise nesting. Don't right code like > > this: > > Or you could be entirely heretical, like me, and go to 4 column tabs and > 120 column formatting. :-) Nobody barfed on the 100-column stuff in userconfig, so I was presuming this wasn't an issue. If anyone wants to see what 80-column braindamage looks like, they should scope out pcvt. (or was it syscons? I can't remember...) > I also realize that this is going to be a highly unpopular position to > take in these comparatively early days of GUI technology, so be it - > just consider me 3-4 years ahead of my time on this issue. :-) Ehh, even the VT100 can handle 132 columns 8) > Jordan -- ]] 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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