80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Even Today

Re:80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Ev... by ChrisRR on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:06AM (#19253910)

You can tear my 120 character line width from my cold dead hands.

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Re:80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Ev... by ncmncm on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @01:28PM (#19256956)

Cold dead hands won't be writing any more unreviewable code.

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Re:80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Ev... by ChrisRR on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @04:38AM (#19262119)

You can fit 120 characters side-by-side on a 1080 monitor no problem (and I regularly do)

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Re:80 Characters per Line Is a Standard Worth Sticking to Ev... by elderK on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @08:17AM (#19263013)

You're assuming everyone is able to read text at the same font size as you.

The font size will likely be increased during a code review, too, depending on how the code is presented to your team.

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