[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Wed May 27 01:12:09 CEST 2009


On Tue, May 26, 2009, Floris Bruynooghe wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:47:05AM -0700, Aahz wrote:
>> On Tue, May 26, 2009, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
>>>
>>> Personally, I would consider "objective arguments" to be controlled,  
>>> repeatasble, studies with quantitative results.  I've seen such studies 
>>> about light-background-dark-foreground vs. dark-foreground- 
>>> light-background, which is why I use the former now.  I haven't seen  
>>> such studies about line width, especially not with Python text as  
>>> opposed to English text.
>> 
>> Personally, I would be amazed to see any significant difference between
>> the two foreground/background combinations you list.  ;-)
> 
> Entirely off topic by now, but these differences are more significant
> for e.g. dyslectic people.  And these studies exist and are the reason
> exam papers in the UK are printed black on yellow etc.

In case it wasn't clear, Zooko gave exactly the same color combo for
foreground/background, only reversed in ordering.  It was a jest at his
expense for the typo.
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