There is a strawman argument in the talk, about the limitation (or now, default) to 80 characters wide consoles which is presented as a "proof" that we're still living in the past.
80 characters (plus or minus 10) has a justification outside the history of teletypes and VT100s: that's the optimum for readability.
Otherwise, there are good ideas, in the talk, but this particular one rubbed me in the wrong way.
80 characters (plus or minus 10) has a justification outside the history of teletypes and VT100s: that's the optimum for readability.
Otherwise, there are good ideas, in the talk, but this particular one rubbed me in the wrong way.