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On 15/05/2014 03:43, Ben Finney wrote:
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Until then may we relegate '79' to quaint historical curiosities
>
> Not until the general capacity of human cognition advances to make
> longer lines easier to read.
>
> We humans may be historical curiosities some day; until then, let's
> continue to write our code as though humans are the ones who will be
> reading it.
>

I thought code was meant to be read by programmers, not humans :)

-- 
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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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