Jayne80 character column limits in code are a legacy from 80 column text displays which are a legacy of IBM's 80 column punch cards which are a legacy of Roman chariots which had two side-by-side 40 column horses
Lightning Duck@dotjayne The one for me is languages like COBOL where the language hard-codes a maximum line length and certain columns have specific meaning
Steven Lipton@LightningDuck @dotjayne I'm such a strong typing language person, adding the formatting as type like COBOL seems elegant to me, which was what those declarations were doing. var date:Date<yyyymmdd> would be cool. Does run into localization problems though.
@MakeAppPie @dotjayne I cur my teeth on Ada so I can appreciate a well designed statically typed approach but learning COBOL in the early 90s (Air Force tech school ) and later having to reverse engineer it dud feel a bit like archeology