EAC - Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

Name : | Ian S. Piper
Organization : | Diebold Election Systems, Inc.
Post Date : | 9/29/2005
Section Comments
Section : | .20.5.4.2
Page no. : | (Vol 2)
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Comment : | For the requirement in item (k), "Has no line of code exceeding 80 columns in width (including comments and tab expansions) without justification;", 80 columns are not enough for modern object-oriented development with liberal comments. This is simply a holdover from earlier times of “dumb terminals” with 80 column screens. The limit only serves to discourage the use of descriptive variable names, as longer names consume more columns. A better limit would be 120 columns or 132 columns. Proposed change: Remove the number "80" and replace it with either "120" or "132".