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Re: best to have max width of 79 or 80 in source code?
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Re: best to have max width of 79 or 80 in source code? |
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Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:45:13 -0800 (PST) |
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On Nov 30, 12:50 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> in my opinion, hard wrappnig lines or in general any manual code
> formatting is a major damage in computing, to the degree that
> influenced bad tools and language design which forces humans to think
> and do what dumb machines can easily automate. The line wrapping
> convention largely spurred the perpetual time wasted on arguing about
> code formatting and tools about it.
I read some of the links you posted. I like idea of Emacs
automagically handling wrapping but one of those links seemed to
suggest that C and Python and Perl weren't amenable to this.
cs