PEP 8 : Maximum line Length :

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 14 23:44:06 EDT 2014


On 15/05/2014 03:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Until then may we relegate '79' to quaint historical curiosities
>
> Not until the general capacity of human cognition advances to make
> longer lines easier to read.
>
> We humans may be historical curiosities some day; until then, let's
> continue to write our code as though humans are the ones who will be
> reading it.
>

I thought code was meant to be read by programmers, not humans :)

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Mark Lawrence

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