[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:44:03 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:

> 
> Still have half a box or so of wide line printer paper and bound RT11
> macro listings from the late 80's / early nineties. I always want 132
> column wide edits, code to the left, comments to the right and line
> printers could handle that. Laser printers bring that up to date with
> 8pt terminal fonts and landscape mode.

I have tried laser printers in landscape mode but the results were never 
as satisfying as line printer output.

> Some think it's obsessive, but I really don't like comments
> interspersed with the code, as it breaks up the visual scan. 

That was/is the big problem with COBOL.  Comments have to go on their own 
lines.  That's fine at the beginning of a chunk of code, but as you say, 
it breaks up the visual flow when you find it elsewhere.  Unfortunately 
this can lead to large pieces of code without any comments at all.

> I still print as well, but with the availability of tabbed editors like
> nedit, I find less need for it. It also saves paper, which I have to pay
> for myself much of the time these days :-)...

Even EDIT/TPU on a 24 line VT was useful here. For example you could be 
looking at data definitions or a separate calling routing in the top 
window, and some code in a lower window.

Tabbed editors don't really give me all I want here.  I prefer editors 
which allow you to view different bits of code in separate windows, 
either side by side or above/below, depending on the task in hand.

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Paul Sture