in reply to An exercise in "That's not the way I'd do it" (TNTWIDI)

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Re: I could only come up with 3 items
by baku (Scribe) on Mar 20, 2001 at 03:05 UTC

    I prefer 72 columns... because there are times when it's good to print out code in hard copy, and even today, most teletypes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H printers are 72 columns wide.

    Besides, it'll make your source code fit on punch-cards.