Timeline for Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
Current License: CC BY-SA 3.0
4 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 2021 at 22:06 | comment | added | gnasher729 | Do you print code? Why? | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 19:49 | comment | added | Pablo Ariel | So, you order the code for the least common use case? | |
| Mar 31, 2014 at 23:02 | comment | added | Mark Booth | As I suggest in my answer @CMike, I do think that it is possible that the punch card width is related to the size of typewriter platens and thus paper sizes (or vice versa). | |
| May 15, 2012 at 17:29 | history | answered | CMike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |