Re: Update of Coding standards line length

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Harley Bussell <harley@zealphp.com> wrote: > It seems that the line length standard is a hold over from the days > when people had to work on low res terminal screens. I'm not aware of > any definitive stats but i would guess most developers would be > working on 1280*1024 + screens now. > > Personally working on a 1900*1200 screen the 80 character limit > detracts from readability instead of improving it. > > What would you think about increasing the limit to better suite modern screens? > > Thanks, Harley Strong -1 ;-) I'm working on my laptop a lot and it runs on 1024x768. (It's not old, but IBM/Lenovo is just conservative with the X-models.) Also, I rarely ever have my editor or IDE on full display anywhere. And I also really despise having to scroll to the right. ;-) Till