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Re: [RFC] Characters per line: from punch card (80) to line printer (132) (was: [Patch][OpenMP/OpenACC/Fortran] Fix mapping of optional (present|absent) arguments)
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Tobias Burnus <tobias at codesourcery dot com>, Michael Meissner <meissner at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 16:17:17 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Characters per line: from punch card (80) to line printer (132) (was: [Patch][OpenMP/OpenACC/Fortran] Fix mapping of optional (present|absent) arguments)
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2019, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> In the relevant session at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2019, Michael Meissner
> stated that even he is not using a 80 x 24 terminal anymore, and that
> should tell us something. ;-)
>
> So, I formally propose that we lift this characters per line restriction
> from IBM punch card (80) to mainframe line printer (132).
I thought these line lengths were based on readability studies suggesting
lengths that lines shorter than 80 columns were more readable?
Longer lines mean less space for multiple terminal / editor windows
side-by-side to look at different pieces of code. I don't think that's an
improvement.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com