A someone who believes proper non-abbreviated naming is essential to maintainable code I think the 80 char/line practice should be dead already. A couple 14 ch

A someone who believes proper non-abbreviated naming is essential to maintainable code I think the 80 char/line practice should be dead already. A couple 14 char class names and some indentation and suddenly everything is a formatting contortion, even if the average content length of a line is well under 80, occasional outliers and moderate indentation (at least 3 or 4 indentation levels are common in object oriented languages from class declaration to control flow) and it's well worth it to use 120 char lines. (And if you write Java you probably need even more space to handle stuff since class names are often a ridiculous number of words long...) Outside of programming languages, I also think the 80 char limit is terrible for readable html or html templates.