On 20/10/12 15:18, 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 print source code. Usually when the development has got to a stage that the program works but needs a lot of tidying up. It's a lot more comfortable than scrolling up and down screen to look through pages from the comfort of an armchair. Also I can take the listing to a Café and write notes all over it. Sometimes removing the temptation to immediately hit the keyboard is a good thing.
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