[TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature

[John Cowan]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:41 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

I click but I mostly live in
> terminal windows.  Which are all 80 columns because that's the right
> width (I can go on and on about that).
>

Aw, c'mon.  You're going to tell us that the number of punch holes that IBM
could fit on a punch card in 1928 that was exactly the size of the dollar
bill used in the U.S. from 1862 to 1923 so that it could be stored in a
mechanical cash register is miraculously the Right Thing when it comes to
reading monospaced text on a screen?  I think that's asking a bit much of
ol' man Coincidence.



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