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

[Robert Kern]

On 2009-05-26 18:12, Aahz wrote:
> 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.

Floris is obviously using a dark-foreground-light-background color scheme, or he 
wouldn't have misread that.  :-)

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Robert Kern

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