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> Why does she need hardcopy? Email was supposed to save trees!

Old habits take a while to change. Managers and executives were used to reports and memos on paper. So when email arrived, it was very common for secretaries to print emails for their bosses to read. Even at one of my early jobs in the 1990s, changes deployed to production had to be documented in memo form, and a copy of the memo printed, along with diffs of the code changes, and filed in a filing cabinet.

We got there eventually. I'd say that for all but the oldest generation still working, printing any kind of document to hardcopy has become pretty rare, at least where I'm working.

>>SoftTa+(OP)
Paper is a lot easier to read than a screen, even a modern 4k monitor is harder on the eyes than paper (I have no tried epaper displays). Paper also provides a lot more resolution, sometimes when the code is tricky the only sane option is to print out all 3 chains worth of that class (you can should turn that into sensible measurements via your favorite unit converted to get a sense of scale, but I think you will agree chains is the correct measure), spread it out on the floor with a pen and start reading and cross referencing things.