[LUAU] Programming style
Jimen Ching
jching at flex.com
Fri Nov 25 13:35:28 PST 2005
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jim Thompson wrote:
>Back when we all worked on 80x24 CRT vt100 clones, getting the function
>good and dense was a fine thing. (Make the function fit on a page, son...
>that way you can see all of it.) Now that bigger windows are the norm,
>it doesn't make any sense at all.
The benefit of seeing an entire page of code is orthogonal to the size of
the screen. I've read code that is 5 pages long on a GUI (with the IDE
maximized). There are benefits of 80 column limits beyond that of vt100
terminals. Viewing source code side-by-side, for one.
--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR) jching at flex.com wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org
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