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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2025 03:42:41 -0800
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2025 06:12:54 +0100, Janis Papanagnou wrote:
>> On 04.03.2025 04:17, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>> Where did 132-column printers come from?
>> 
>> From IBM ? - Or S&H ?
>
> The point being, the idea that 80 columns is a good line length for 
> programming is, shall we say, based on doubtful evidence.

Why are you writing that in (indirect) response to a post in which I
already acknowledged that?

If your question about 132-column printers was intended to make a point,
why not just make that point directly?

From upthread, where I summarized the technological background for
80-column lines:

"""
I'll just note that the fact that 80 is an arbitrary number, based on
technologies we no longer use, doesn't automatically mean that it's a
bad rule of thumb for line length.
"""

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */