On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Mike Hoye <mh...@mozilla.com> wrote: > On 1/7/2014, 3:22 PM, Adam Roach wrote: > >> >> Since people are introducing actual research information here, let's run >> some numbers. According to Paterson et. al. [1], reading comprehension >> speed is actively hindered by lines that are either too short or too long, >> which they define as 9 picas (1.5 inches) and 43 picas (~7 inches), >> respectively. Comprehension is significantly faster at 19 picas (~3 >> inches). [...] >> [1] http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/xge/27/5/572/ >> > > I found some other citations about this as well - > http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/feb03.asp#kath among others - but > they all measure people reading English, not code. >
Yes, it's not clear that those English results would carry over. For one thing, when reading English text almost every line is going to be close to the maximum line length, but not so in code. Rob -- Jtehsauts tshaei dS,o n" Wohfy Mdaon yhoaus eanuttehrotraiitny eovni le atrhtohu gthot sf oirng iyvoeu rs ihnesa.r"t sS?o Whhei csha iids teoa stiheer :p atroa lsyazye,d 'mYaonu,r "sGients uapr,e tfaokreg iyvoeunr, 'm aotr atnod sgaoy ,h o'mGee.t" uTph eann dt hwea lmka'n? gBoutt uIp waanndt wyeonut thoo mken.o w _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
