From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,429176cb92b1b825 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in the end) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:07:23 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <3077fffa-eed7-4763-8bca-9ac3bb0a41e1@o14g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <82y66ihc0i.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <4d355532$0$6878$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> <8b58b9da-a014-4a0e-8d20-ca86a4993961@h17g2000pre.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: aS7WY6CBCam1jvnqwM9+QQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.00 (Win32) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17517 Date: 2011-01-19T10:07:23+01:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:19:39 +0100, J-P. Rosen a =C3=A9= crit: > I beg to (partially) disagree here: reading a newspaper has nothing to= > do with reading a program. Columns are intended to have a width that > allows to grasp the whole line without having to move the eyeball - th= us > increasing the speed of reading. This is possible because the average > word is 5 letters long, and that the brain is able to reconstruct a > sentence from partial information (fast reading is about not reading > word-by-word). > > In programming, most identifiers are far longer than five characters, > especially I agree, that's what I also said in the last sentence of second paragrap= h. By the way: that's not just with news-paper, the same apply to the web = (too much long line is a common criticism about bad page design). > if you are use-phobic (hint, hint). And you want to read > exactly what's written, not what your brain thinks is written! Another topic. That's not really phobic, this is just that if one use = prefixed notation 95% of times, even those units which could be Used are= = also used with prefix, for consistency. > The limitation to 80 characters has nothing to do with ergonomy, it wa= s > the width of the 1928 IBM punched card (says one who programmed on > punched cards in his beginnings - not in 1928 though). I heard to say they agreed 80 characters was a good width. But you know = = better than I (age matters here), so I may be wrong (I just share memori= es = written by some others, this may be error prone). > I agree that /some/limitation is necessary, but 80 is far to narrow, > leading to excessive folding in nested constructs. My personal taste i= s > for 120 columns - no problem to view that with any editor, even on sma= ll > screens. Well, that's true 120 is nice too. However, it's already too large for = side by side view (as noticed by Pascal) even on a wide graphic screen, = = and vertical tile is not nice (not enough height, you have to scroll all= = the time and lose from view what you've just scrolled). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]