alt Hacker News> (1) Most modern languages discourage or forbid symbol/emoji characters in identifiers
> (2) When it comes to color,
Call me boomer if you wish, but if you can't grasp the value of having your code readable on a 24 rows by 80 columns, black and white screen, you are not a software developer. You are not even a programmer: at most, you are a prompt typist for ChatGPT.
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inopinatus • 11/04/2025
23x75 to allow for a status bar and the possibility that the code may be quoted in an email. Also, it’s green on black. Or possibly amber.
And yet I still have a utility named "~/bin/\uE43E"
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While I agree that, if the function at hand can’t fit in a 25x80 window it most likely should be broken in smaller functions, there are kinder ways to say that.
I also joke God made the VT100 with 80 columns for a reason.