[CALUG] library script
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3 at Comcast.NET
Sun Jul 11 00:13:54 EDT 2010
On 7/9/2010 12:39 PM, Ken Jackson wrote:
> I'm with you 100%.
>
> Even though 80 columns has it's roots in an ancient, arbitrary hardware
> limitation, it remains an excellent and reasonable limit.
>
> Unfortunately, many of my coworkers see it as an unnecessary
> anachronism.
>
> -Ken
>
Of course they do...what do mere children know? They probably never
printed a listing and marked it up.
But ultimately, what it's All About is Readability. Don't Make Me Think.
Don't make me strain to Locate The Meaning.
I want to see "Twitterfied" whose meaning Jumps Into My Head at a Mere
Glance.
Yeah, I used to write murky dense one-liners, and I mean APL here, but I
got tired of figuring out what I meant.
Any Fool can make something Complex. It takes a Genius to make it Simple.
I'll settle for somewhere In Between.
JIM
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