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Kernel Summit 2008 - an advance view

Kernel Summit 2008 - an advance view

Posted Aug 30, 2007 17:20 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Kernel Summit 2008 - an advance view by AJWM
Parent article: Kernel Summit 2007 - an advance view

You should note that typography research recommends to use at most 60-70 characters per line for readability. Taking indentation into account (but also not forgetting about comments) that translates to ca. 80-90 characters in source files.

There's more to this limit than punch cards.

Joachim


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Kernel Summit 2008 - an advance view

Posted Aug 30, 2007 19:12 UTC (Thu) by AJWM (guest, #15888) [Link]

Oh, I'm not advocating >80 char lines in source code. Heck, I used to program a lot in APL, 20 characters ought to be more than enough for anyone ;-)

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