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Re:I am an 80 column purist by bzbz on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:36AM (#25253520)
And screens are bigger than they used to be, so you conveniently have more tabs to make up for it. I think it evens out
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Re:I am an 80 column purist by watwut on Monday November 30, 2020 @08:51AM (#25253638)
How does bigger screen imply that three levels of nesting are bad programming? It just does not.
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Re:I am an 80 column purist by bzbz on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:25AM (#25254688)
> Maybe in context of old C, but in java you have two nestings just for being in class method. So as a general point, it does not stand anyway.

In reference to your above point. You’re saying modern Java makes you start out at 2 levels of indentation. I’m saying your modern monitor’s width compensates.

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Re:I am an 80 column purist by watwut on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:43AM (#25255721)
What does that compensation have to do with whether nesting of level 3 is fundamentaly wrong code or not?
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