On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > >> Strangely, we've gone from 80-character fixed width displays to >> who-knows-what (if I drop my font size I can probably get nearly 200 >> characters across in full-screen mode)... >> >> But at the same time we've gone from 132-character line-printers >> using fan-fold 11x17 pages, to office inkjet/laser printers using >> 8.5x11 paper, defaulting to portrait orientation -- with a 10 >> character/inch font, and 1/4" left/right margins, we're back to 80 >> character limitation >><G> > > True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they?
I do. There's nothing better than spreading out a dozen sheets of source code over a table to get a good, high-level overview of what does what in preparation to refactoring it. > Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code... I've never printed souce code either *wink* -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
