Ask HN: How many characters per line do programmers typically prefer?

Re:Ask HN: How many characters per line do programmers typic... by baccheion on Monday April 25, 2016 @03:54PM (#11566847)

I usually don't have to move my head to read 120 character lines.

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Re:Ask HN: How many characters per line do programmers typic... by Someone on Tuesday April 26, 2016 @01:24PM (#11573797)

For reference: on an iPad, I get 61 characters on a line in the HN input field, and it is about half the screen width in landscape mode. So, an iPad can do about 120 fixed-width characters on a line. I don't think I move my head when reading iPad text in landscape mode.

I expect that people with somewhat normal vision will say the same.

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