Am 31.01.2011 00:17, schrieb Stewart Gordon:
On 30/01/2011 17:17, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
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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.
Other than, as you begin to say, the difficulty in deciding on where to
move the line to.
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?
For all I know, people probably still do run the D compiler in the
terminal app on Unix-like systems.
1. The D-Compiler doesn't care if the code fits in your terminal
2. You can have bigger terminals than 80x25 - just resize your
xterm/rxvt/gnome-terminal/putty/whatever
