Current status: reading a discussion on Unix terseness as a consequence on TTYs being slow. Fascinating hard data.
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Replying to @puellavulnerata
@puellavulnerata Diomides Spinellis actually did some research on identifier length in code vs. tty serial line speed.#god1 reply 2 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @cynicalsecurity
@cynicalsecurity I'd guess in more recent code it's influenced by whether people have caved into wider-than-80-column editor windows4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @puellavulnerata
@puellavulnerata@cynicalsecurity we eventually got people to let go of NCSA Mosaic, surely one day they will let go of their VT-102s2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@cynicalsecurity we shouldn't have; look what the modern web has become1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @puellavulnerata
@puellavulnerata@cynicalsecurity you make a fine point. we should've stood athwart the W3C and yelled "Stop".1 reply 1 retweet 4 likes
@puellavulnerata @cynicalsecurity as long as we stopped before the 90s QuarkXPress-alumni design wave. god that was nightmarish.
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