POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Shortest Code Contest : Re: Shortest Code Contest Server Time
7 Aug 2024 03:17:40 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Shortest Code Contest  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 18 Jan 2002 16:54:12
Message: <slrna4h6c7.6q9.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On 18 Jan 2002 16:39:18 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Bill DeWitt <bde### [at] cflrrcom> wrote:
>:     According to the convention of four lines of eighty characters.
> 
>   In fact, it's better to use well less than 80 characters in order to avoid
> line wrapping in quotes (I think that the recommendation is something like
> 72 characters in a line).

Signatures are exempt from that rule, because only lusers quote signatures. :)
Google on McQuary Limit, or see 
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/McQuary-limit.html

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