On 7/9/07, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> Josh Hurst writes:
> > On 7/4/07, Peter Memishian <peter.memishian at sun.com> wrote:
> > > * 113-143: Please reformat to be 80-column friendly.
> >
> > Why? It may be appropriate for the 60' of the last century but today
> [...]
>
> Because the style guide says so:
>
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/getting_started_docs/cstyle.ms.pdf
That are Sun rules, not Opensolaris rules. It seems archaic today to
have a 50 year old punch card-style 80-column limit. Computers use
silicon chips, not vacuum tubes. Punch cards have been obsoleted,
operating systems use more than 640k, disks can hold more than 4GB. I
think the Slashdot article is right: A 80-column limit is history.
Cheers,
William
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(.>__<.) GNU/Solaris hacker
