20 Feb
2009
20 Feb
'09
1:54 a.m.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
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
/me points at his iPhone:
Dan-s-Phone:~ mobile$ echo $COLUMNS 53
Shitty modern technology. Hrrmph!