From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:19:10 -0300 Message-ID: <4153058E.3090606@acm.org> References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de Uago9iffOhAoqtMrshH3GQMrcbCsjea74kDiaMcxBcSVrV8x0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: pt-br, pt Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4029 Date: 2004-09-23T14:19:10-03:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves escreveu: >> Anyone else than I missing the good old days with printouts from line >> printers with continuous paper? > > > This interests me, because I'm researching knowledge media, how the > medium constraints influence habits and effectivness of reading, what > levels of knowledge organization are influenced by technology... You > mean the "page principle" (fit a function inside a page or less) is > totally technology-driven (and hence not a principle)? Not a rough > measure of some cognitive absolute? Thanks. > Probably. For other realms, a 'comfortable' size would be an A3 or A2 sheet with some graphical representation, or a maquette with no more than (say) one square meter. You probably will pass at in your research why the distance we find comfortable for talking to other persons has to be no less than a meter so we can see the whole face of the other person.