This? http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng... I had to move my head

This? http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLength.asp http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/72/LineLeng... I had to move my head with every line I read. (The PDF is somewhat easier on the eyes.) Not a single reference to aviation, the context where most of the related research has been done, and where research matters most, as people's lives depend upon it. The article was specifically about reading news on-line, and was a very small study. Reading code is somewhat different to reading prose in natural language such as news. To understand a portion of code at all, you need to take in every token. With very long lines, this means having to move your eyes back and forward. Laying it out vertically makes scanning a lot easier.