[Haskell-cafe] Readable Haskell

[Andrew Butterfield]

+1

I am working on a project looking at formal verfication for an open-source
real-time operating system called RTEMS - rtems.org <http://rtems.org/>. I use Haskell to do
rapid prototyping of various tools we are building, ultimately to be delivered in
python.

RTEMS coding standards for both C/C++ and Python mandate a maximum line length of 80,
for pretty much the reasons stated by Ben below

Regards, Andrew

> On 21 Sep 2020, at 20:36, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de> wrote:
> 
> Am 21.09.20 um 12:05 schrieb Ignat Insarov:
>> I did not mean to imply that every Haskell programmer has or should
>> have a retina screen and a high performance GPU — only that, as a
>> profession, we have way better tools now than back then.
>> 
>> In humanities, it is usual for there to be either a normal
>> distribution or a Pareto distribution in any large enough sample of
>> data. So, unlike in precise sciences, a counter-example does not
>> refute a proposition. What matters is that there is a trend. And there
>> is a trend associated with larger and finer displays. It dawns on even
>> the most _«old school»_ people by now. See for example a letter on
>> Linux Kernel Mailing List.[1]
> 
> What you and Mr. Torvalds forget is that there is a reason why
> newspapers are written in relatively small columns. Even scientific
> papers are often printed in two column mode. Typesetting has been done
> since a few 100 years and has for the most time been an analog
> technique, so it mostly wasn't limited by available resolution. The
> point is that humans aren't good at reading text when the line length
> exceeds roughly 80 characters because when you jump from the far right
> to the far left of the text, it gets hard to correctly identify where
> the next line starts. A value of 60 is ideal for non-indented text. Thus
> considering indentation that is not too deep, say (usually) not
> exceeding 5 levels a 4 spaces makes 20 chars, which means max. line
> length is ideal at 80 and should not exceed 100 (or 90 with 2 spaces for
> indentation).
> 
> I can view files in fullscreen mode if forced to do so by the author of
> the code but I hate it. This has nothing to do with being old-school.
> 
>>> When I tile my terminal windows on my display, I can have 6 terminals
>>> visible at one time, and that's because I have them three wide. And I
>>> could still fit 80% of a fourth one side-by-side.
> 
> Using a laptop with max. 15 inch display? How old are you? People over
> 50 years or so usually have trouble reading such small print, no matter
> how great the resolution. So (apart from the arguments above) screen
> size often limits how much text can be displayed in a readable fashion.
> 
> Cheers
> Ben
> 
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