A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness
Grant Edwards
invalid at invalid.invalid
Sat Oct 20 10:18:47 EDT 2012
On 2012-10-20, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at 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?
Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code...
--
Grant
More information about the Python-list
mailing list