Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[alex wright]

The 80 column limit probably helps protect us from the singularity.  Once
the robots take over we will have code with a digestible amount of logic
per line and can fix what we have caused.  In other words, Java is only
armoring the robots against us for the inevitable battle.

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 7:33 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk>
> wrote:
> > Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> writes:
> > <snip>
> >>       I still miss the Amiga -- in which one could /push/ a window to
> the
> >> back of the stack while still retaining input focus! Made it nice for
> >> transcribing stuff from a visible window to a text input region while it
> >> was obscured.
> >
> > That was commonly available on Unix window managers and is still around.
> > I use it on even an up-to-date Linux/Gnome3 system (you set focus
> > follows mouse rather than focus on click).
>
> Focus follows mouse is annoying for other reasons though.
>
> ChrisA
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-- 
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the
machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able
rightly
to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a
question."

-Charles Babbage, 19th century English mathematician, philosopher, inventor
and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable
computer.