On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is 2010; people don't
> write code on tiny terminals anymore but solid IDEs on decent screens.

I'd just like to point out there still is a niche use case similar to
the "tiny screen" use case. It has no bearing on the tabs vs. spaces
discussion, but it seems useful to mention.

Those of us who are visually impaired are still pretty much
constrained to tiny screens even with 30" monitors. I use my OS's zoom
feature to show only the portion of the screen I'm working with. So I
still build software with lines no longer than about 90 - 100 chars.
Since Carl brought up fixed-width fonts, etc. it's useful to mention
those are helpful too.

We may be a very small minority and most teams probably don't include
a visually-impaired person, but it's a very important consideration
for those of us who are forced to consider it :-)

Greg

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