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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 07:56:26 -0500
From: Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com>
To: Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: PEP8 79 char max
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On 2013-09-06 20:47, Tim Delaney wrote:
> On 6 September 2013 20:35, Tim Chase wrote:
> > I'm just glad it's no longer 40-chars-per-column and purely
> > upper-case like the Apple ][+ on which I cut my programming teeth.
> 
> Couldn't you switch the ][+ into high-res mode? You could with the
> IIe. Made programming in DOS 3.3 BASIC so much nicer.

There was an 80-column add-on card that also supported lower-case
(though, IIRC, you also had to do a hardware hack to wire the <shift>
key to the joystick button to get it to be recognized in certain
cases).  The IIe was a far better machine, having the 80-column card
built in.  PR#3 :-)

I'm also glad Python doesn't require prefixing lines with
line-numbers for GOTO/GOSUB purposes, then requiring external
the line-renumbering utilities that AppleSoft BASIC required :-S

-tkc