On 18/07/2011 14:52, Duncan Booth wrote:
Tim Chase<python.l...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
On 07/17/2011 08:01 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:
We don't have that problem any more. It truly boggles my
mind that we're still churning out people with 80 column
minds. I'm willing to entertain arguments about readability
of long lines, but the idea that there's something magic
about 80 columns is hogwash.
I agree! Which is why I set my line width to 78 columns.
Bah, when I started programming
on the Apple ][+, we had no
lower-case and a 40-column limit
on the TV display.
But you try and tell the young
people today that...
and they won't believe ya'.
Acorn System One: 9 character 7 segment led display and 25 key keypad, 1Kb
RAM, 512 bytes ROM.
1KB RAM? Wow!
Science of Cambridge Mk14, with extra RAM and I/O chip, total of 640
bytes (some reserved for monitor program).
Main RAM at 0xF00..0xFFF, extra RAM at 0xB00..0xBFF, I/O RAM somewhere
else...
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