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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf] by Rebelgecko on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:48AM (#31257475)
The width limit is per language- some are longer than 80. And some languages, believe it or not, don't even have readability
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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf] by google234123 on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @02:52AM (#31257494)
Sorry, i didn’t mean to use that word to mean that. Was just talking about how it’s easier to read parameters and long conditional statements that are split over separate lines.
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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2020) [pdf] by jppittma on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @06:07AM (#31258510)
No languages have readability on GoB. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
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