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Why are they even named like this?
When I read code, I want to be able to read it.....
Is this from a time when space was expensive and you wanted to reduce the space of the source files on the devs PC???
For me (with a native language != english), this made it a lot harder to get into programming in the first place.
I've heard it's because old screens were like 60 character wide
Also punched cards had around 80 columns, which put a hard limit on the number of characters per line.