On 80 columns should (not) be enough for everyone

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 31.01.2011 00:17, schrieb Stewart Gordon:
> On 30/01/2011 17:17, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> <snip>
>> 80 colums is an artifact of the old age. Just like the
>> preprocessor is an artifact of the C language. And many other old
>> things are artifacts. There's no reason to keep these artifacts
>> around anymore.
>
> Other than, as you begin to say, the difficulty in deciding on where to
> move the line to.
>
>> A couple of things, Andrei:
>> 1. 80 colums is way too restrictive. 80 columns wasn't determined
>> by some scientific method to be a good size for code, it's a
>> product of limitations of the older generation hardware. Who will
>> run a brand new language like D in a freakin' Terminal?
>
> For all I know, people probably still do run the D compiler in the
> terminal app on Unix-like systems.
>

1. The D-Compiler doesn't care if the code fits in your terminal
2. You can have bigger terminals than 80x25 - just resize your 
xterm/rxvt/gnome-terminal/putty/whatever