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I know that it has to do with the width of older terminals, perhaps even back to the teletypes. But those hard restrictions don't exist anymore, yet some people
by pyre 9y ago
I know that it has to do with the width of older terminals, perhaps even back to the teletypes. But those hard restrictions don't exist anymore, yet some people treat "80 characters" as some golden law passed down from heaven that cannot be broken lest you incites the wrath of the gods. That kind of fervour (without some sort of concrete, logical reasoning) is nothing but cargo-cultism so far as I'm concerned. E.g. "we do it this way because it's always been done this way."
- rlpb 9y agoJust because it originates from teletypes that are no longer used doesn't mean that there's a problem with that width today. We need some standard, because otherwise you end up in formatting hell. There's nothing wrong with 80, so it might as well continue to be 80.