On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 05:01:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > My 63-year-old eyes struggle with 80-character lines, but in all > fairness to those with better eyesight I'm not going to argue for > Mom's 65[1].
This is a very good point that the "80 columns is too short" crowd forget. 80 columns is *already* significantly longer (20-25%) than the optimum column width for prose text. It is a compromise between optimimum reading width for prose (about 65 columns of monospaced text) and the needs of program code, which does not always work well with word-wrapping. But I digress. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HMM5PCK3QRRT7V3ZKXPGMXQFUGN6DS7K/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
