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This is brilliant and a welcome repost.

As a developer with superannuated eyes and a penchant for side-by-side diffs, I am disappointed to see that the supplemental deep abyss contains “80 columns”. Damn kids with their memes and 5pt fonts shakes fist!



Linking 80 columns to the size of foolscap paper several centuries ago is pretty arcane whether you like narrow lines or not.


My bad — I assumed the “80 columns” was listed in the guise of a complaint about narrow wrapping in the age of 40” widescreen displays.




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