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From the article: > End your lines at between 60 and 75 characters, or so. (There's a reason[3] that newspapers and magazines do not use the whole width of th
by rhn_mk1 5y ago
From the article:
> End your lines at between 60 and 75 characters,
or so. (There's a reason[3] that newspapers and magazines
do not use the whole width of their page and instead create
much shorter columns.)
The author forgot that the reason is that newspapers and magazines control the medium on which their text will be read, and know how wide the reader's page is.
There's nothing more annoying in the programmer's world than the assumption that the reader will prefer to read prose in monospaced font, in an area that's 80 characters wide.