In Linus’ missive, we learn that he runs terminals at 100 x 50, and frequently drags them out to a screen-filling 142 x 76. Combined with a trend for variable names becoming more and more descriptive, which I take to be a good thing, and monitors’ aspect ratios growing seemingly without end, which I don’t, the 80-column width seems like a relic from the long-gone era of the VT-220. That’s one of the reasons for the Linux Kernel style guide’s ridiculously wide 8-character tabs. When I look at a codebase, I like to see its structure, and I’m not alone. For more background on how we got here, read ’s history piece on Hackaday, and you’ll learn that sliced bread and the 80-character IBM punch card both made their debut in July, 1928. ![]() ![]() spaces can start religious wars, saying that 80-character-wide code was obsolete was, to some, utter heresy. A couple of weeks ago, Linus Torvalds laid down the law, in a particularly Linusesque sort of way.
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