Re: The real reason for fairly small line lengths
>Isn't that the exact crux of Linus's argument?
No!
Linus is having a problem with lines that are 80~100 characters long. So only a few characters need to be wrapped around.
I suspect his problem is that if you have a lot of these lines - with only a few characters over 80, it gets time consuming to reformat to do a neat word wrap. Since many programmers only produce write-only code they see the effort necessary to improve readability as a waste of time.
So basically, Linus's problem is the tool he is using: source code-editors need to incorporate some basic word-processor functionality so that they can intelligently wrap code.
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