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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 14:44:42 +0200
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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 00:29:29 +0000
Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:

> On 27/02/2025 15:47, David Brown wrote:
> >=20
> > Newspaper columns are often much shorter - 30 to 40 characters.=A0 So
> > why is that? =20
>=20
> Because newspapers are basically in portrait format, so long thin=20
> columns fit well.
>=20
> Computer terminals, back in the day, were basically square,=20

My impression is that even in early days 5:4 was more common than
square.

> so 80=20
> columns was often a hard limit.
>=20
> Now you have larger landscape screens, with windows that can be=20
> stretched as wide as you like.
>=20

For many years I use 1200x1920 (yes, portait) as my main monitor at
work.
Turning Full HD 90 degrees does not work as well - 1080 is too narrow.
In this case 11% difference matters.