> 80 characters helps a lot [...] so you can run three side/side text buffers in your text editor, instead of two with lots of useless white space because a few

> 80 characters helps a lot [...] so you can run three side/side text buffers in your text editor, instead of two with lots of useless white space because a few lines might be too long. Add the fact that there still are people who print the code on paper out there.