in reply to Re^3: bloated 'if' formatting
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Which, given a standard width of 80 characters means the code will be wrapped.

Geez. I last used an 80 character wide screen back around 1984. Auspicous year. That was an ADM 3+. Next I used a VT100 which handle 132. Around 1987, I moved over to a PC with a EGA screen that also handle 132. And after that a 3279G which could handle 4 48x132 sessions tiled.

The last time I used a *nix system, it was remotely via PC-based terminal emulator and I frequently used SCREEN to run four terminal sessions in a window, and from memory each of those four tiled sessions was over 80 characters wide. When I ran one session full screen it was something 200 x 72.

What is this fixation with the 1970s and 24x80?

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