Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most? Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2025 02:55:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <87frk10w51.fsf@onesoftnet.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2025 03:55:25 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7015e831a7f126365c8eb00fa01df5b4"; logging-data="4142168"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19KD08Zwk7bLtt565/tSpbp" User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Cancel-Lock: sha1:74+Qct2ec8Q+VPNAqxsesfr5uoY= Bytes: 1953 On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 23:32:29 +0000, Richard Harnden wrote: > On 28/02/2025 21:10, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:21:01 +0000, Richard Harnden wrote: >> >>> Have your mental margin-bell ding at around 75 characters ... >> >> What was the ding for? Was it because typists were not in the habit of >> looking at what they were typing? > > They didn't need to look at what they were typing, because > they could touch-type. Touch-typing means not having to look at the keyboard. It doesn’t mean not looking at what you're typing.