Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
> They're the OpenSolaris rules we took from Solaris.
>
> And they are, IMHO, still valid rules; 132 character lines do not add
> anything; rather, they annoyingly waste 40% of screen real estate.
>
> Why do you think newspapers are set in colums? Because we can't read or
> follow long lines very well.
>
> 80 characters are a good compromise.
>
> Changing to 132 requires *everyone* to change their habits; it limits the
I use the following rule:
Try to be able to deal with 80 columns but make a hard limit at 132.
Note that even 132 cannot be always the limit as I write portable softwar that
compiles on HP-UX using the free compiler that comes with HP-UX. This compiler
cannot do string concatenation....
J?rg
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