Re:IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display
by adrian_b on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @07:46AM
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That is true for continuous English text.
Programs have lines with a very variable length, which changes a lot the ability to locate lines.
I prefer very much 132-character lines to 80-character lines.
Those who claim that 80-character lines are good enough write only programs which may have a complex structure, but nonetheless they do only simple data manipulation, like copying and searching.
There are also programs which do complex computations, so there are many long expressions for which splitting them in multiple lines makes the programs much less readable.
Programs have lines with a very variable length, which changes a lot the ability to locate lines.
I prefer very much 132-character lines to 80-character lines.
Those who claim that 80-character lines are good enough write only programs which may have a complex structure, but nonetheless they do only simple data manipulation, like copying and searching.
There are also programs which do complex computations, so there are many long expressions for which splitting them in multiple lines makes the programs much less readable.