March 2, 2022
1:58 a.m.
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 05:01:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
My 63-year-old eyes struggle with 80-character lines, but in all fairness to those with better eyesight I'm not going to argue for Mom's 65[1].
This is a very good point that the "80 columns is too short" crowd forget. 80 columns is *already* significantly longer (20-25%) than the optimum column width for prose text. It is a compromise between optimimum reading width for prose (about 65 columns of monospaced text) and the needs of program code, which does not always work well with word-wrapping. But I digress. -- Steve