19 Feb
2009
19 Feb
'09
5:07 p.m.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Michael Simpson <michael@abstract.fm> wrote:
I think any sort of character limitation should be very carefully considered. Things should be designed to scale gracefully by means of a solid interface not by designing things to fit in 80 columns or any other fixed number.
Just to be clear here - even the terminals from the 70s supported 80 characters. "wide terminals" supported 132. Designing/limiting for 80 characters is a practice that has been used for a long time