A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2012-10-18, Den <patentsvnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> But I have to say I'm amused by the whole question, and others
> related to PEP8.  A quick aside, the width of our roads all go
> back to the width of a two horse rig.  The suggested maximum of
> 80 characters goes back to teletype machines, and IBM cards,
> and character based terminals
>
> Should that really be the basis for a suggested style now?

I had to use vim's reformatting powers to fix your first
paragraph. ;)

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/06/text-columns-how-long-is-too-long.html

Code is limited to one column, is left-justified, and
comprehension is much more important than reading speed. There
are lots of studies, but they are all about blocks of text, not
code.

Though technology has moved along swiftly, keeping your code
accessible to the guy using a crummy old console xterm might
still be worthwhile, and it makes printouts easy to create.

-- 
Neil Cerutti