> Like all other programmers, other people's code annoys me. The most common annoyance is that people write too wide code.
> This is probably because most programmers have drunk the Cool Aid that bigger screens make you more productive. When you code on a big screen, you don't notice how wide your lines become.
This is part of why I only ever edit code in a half-screen-width window; the other half of the screen is always filled with either another editor, or a terminal. This ends up coming out to more like 100 characters per line rather than 80, but the principle is the same.
> This is probably because most programmers have drunk the Cool Aid that bigger screens make you more productive. When you code on a big screen, you don't notice how wide your lines become.
This is part of why I only ever edit code in a half-screen-width window; the other half of the screen is always filled with either another editor, or a terminal. This ends up coming out to more like 100 characters per line rather than 80, but the principle is the same.