On Sunday 21 October 2012 07:02:26 Steven D'Aprano did opine: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to > >> > >> who-knows-what (if I drop my font size I can probably get nearly 200 > >> characters across in full-screen mode)... > >> > >> But at the same time we've gone from 132-character line-printers > >> > >> using fan-fold 11x17 pages, to office inkjet/laser printers using > >> 8.5x11 paper, defaulting to portrait orientation -- with a 10 > >> character/inch font, and 1/4" left/right margins, we're back to 80 > >> character limitation > >> > >><G> > >> > > True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they? > > I do. > > There's nothing better than spreading out a dozen sheets of source code > over a table to get a good, high-level overview of what does what in > preparation to refactoring it. > > > Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code... > > I've never printed souce code either *wink*
So do I, but I often am looking at assembler listings with the assembler set for 132 chars a line to preserve the src codes comments, so lp gets a use 17 cpi option on the cli that makes the listing. I probably recycle 2 reams of paper a year doing exactly that. Those who won't take advantage of that are doomed to publish buggy code. 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! Not all men who drink are poets. Some of us drink because we aren't poets. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list