On Thursday 18 October 2012 18:40:52 Grant Edwards did opine: > On 2012-10-18, Den <patents...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 17, 2012 11:06:43 PM UTC-7, Zero Piraeus wrote: > >> What are people's preferred strategies for dealing with lines that go > > > >> over 79 characters? A few I can think of off the bat: > > I personally just keep typing until my statement is finished. This > > is my program, not PEP's. > > > > But I have to say I'm amused by the whole question, and others > > related to PEP8. A quick aside, the width of our roads all go back > > to the width of a two horse rig. The suggested maximum of 80 > > characters goes back to teletype machines, and IBM cards, and > > character based terminals > > > > Should that really be the basis for a suggested style now? > > You don't expect me to through my Heathkit H19 terminal in the trash, > do you? :)
Or me to delete the vt-220 I wrote to run on a TRS-80 Color Computer running OS-9 for an OS, 20 years ago when the Dec made one ate its H.O.T. & Dec would not sell me a H.O.T. since it was over 5 years old and wanted $2995 for brand new vt-550 (with no guarantee it would be compatible)? That, and their field service engineers inability to fix a crashing hourly or more PDP-11/723a amply explains why DEC is no longer with us. That single obstinate computer made the CBS tv network design a new system and distribute it gratis to every network affiliate they had, somewhere around 125 stations, at a cost of at least 10G's a station. Screw that. I had better things to than throw more good money after bad. So did CBS at the time. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! How sharper than a hound's tooth it is to have a thankless serpent. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
