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76 character widths for board reports?
Is this really necessary?
Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger generations.
Regards,
Alan
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Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Posted by Roman Shaposhnik <rv...@apache.org>.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:17 PM, John D. Ament <jo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Not sure if serious or calling Roman and Marvin youngin's....
Who's he calling a youngin? In Soviet Russia my first computer
played on me!
Thanks,
Roman.
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Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Posted by "John D. Ament" <jo...@gmail.com>.
Not sure if serious or calling Roman and Marvin youngin's....
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com>
wrote:
> Is this really necessary?
>
> Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based
> computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate
> the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger
> generations.
>
>
> Regards,
> Alan
>
>
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Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Posted by "Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>.
Yep..I'm on a mainframe right now :)
I've written a program to emulate me:
./long-ass-messedup-wrapping-emails.py
Check out my apachestuff Github it's in
there..
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
Chief Architect
Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
Office: 168-519, Mailstop: 168-527
Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Computer Science Department
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA
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-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
Reply-To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:02 PM
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
Subject: Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
>On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com>
>wrote:
>> Is this really necessary?
>
>The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text
>every month. If the reports aren't formatted by the time the Board gets
>them,
>then the Board members have to clean them up. Brett and Sam spend a
>bunch of
>time every month on this stuff.
>
>The following quote is taken from one of the reminder emails which get
>sent
>out each month:
>
> Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to
> formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters.
>
>(; Does a 77 character allotment instead of 76 make things ok? ;)
>
>If we ever get to the point where Incubator reports are submitted via web
>form, I hope to contribute some code which performs word wrapping and
>indenting automatically so that the Report Manager doesn't have to worry
>over
>this. It'll be tricky though because people use different bullet
>styles... I
>dunno, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
>
>> Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based
>> computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't
>>appreciate
>> the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger
>> generations.
>
>I think NASA makes Mattmann use one of those for his email.
>
>Marvin Humphrey
>
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Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Posted by Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com>
> wrote:
> > Is this really necessary?
>
Yes.
> The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text
> every month.
^^ rationale
>...
> Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to
> formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters.
>
I think we may have actually rejected one, in the past, for being
unreadable due to wiki formatting crap (thus, the need to-clarify /
for-the-rule).
>...
Cheers,
-g
Re: 76 character widths for board reports?
Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Alan D. Cabrera <li...@toolazydogs.com> wrote:
> Is this really necessary?
The Board minutes, which include all reports, are formatted as plain text
every month. If the reports aren't formatted by the time the Board gets them,
then the Board members have to clean them up. Brett and Sam spend a bunch of
time every month on this stuff.
The following quote is taken from one of the reminder emails which get sent
out each month:
Cutting and pasting directly from a Wiki is not acceptable due to
formatting issues. Line lengths should be limited to 77 characters.
(; Does a 77 character allotment instead of 76 make things ok? ;)
If we ever get to the point where Incubator reports are submitted via web
form, I hope to contribute some code which performs word wrapping and
indenting automatically so that the Report Manager doesn't have to worry over
this. It'll be tricky though because people use different bullet styles... I
dunno, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
> Speaking as one who actually coded on punched cards on an octal based
> computer, I feel indignant that you young whippersnappers don't appreciate
> the hard won freedoms us older coders have brought to the younger
> generations.
I think NASA makes Mattmann use one of those for his email.
Marvin Humphrey
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