On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 08:13:16PM +0200, William James wrote:
> 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.
I hasten to point out the irony that you decry the 80-column limit, and
yet you carefully keep your screed to within that very same limit...
- Bryan
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Bryan Cantrill, Solaris Kernel Development. http://blogs.sun.com/bmc
