Andrej Mitrovic wrote: > The unittest topic is about to get derailed so I want to continue this > silly discussion here. > 80 colums is an artifact of the old age. Just like the preprocessor is an > artifact of the C language. And many other old things are artifacts. > There's no reason to keep these artifacts around anymore.
Yes, but there has to be some limit, horizontal scrolling is much worse. Someone at my workplace likes to make 400+ columns lines of code for example, he likes it but it confuses the shit out of me. > A couple of things, Andrei: > 1. 80 colums is way too restrictive. 80 columns wasn't determined by some > scientific method to be a good size for code, it's a product of > limitations of the older generation hardware. Who will run a brand new > language like D in a freakin' Terminal? Terminals can host more than 80 columns these days. > If you want to see more files on the screen, get multiple screens. Is > Facebook running out of money, can't they afford a few monitors for the > C++ guru? Yes, I know you're not allowed to comment on that one. :) iirc Andrei commented facebook installed him a 30inch screen.
