I'm not so sure about 160 chars, but I do agree that 80 chars is a little ridiculous these days. I have not yet one good argument for 80 chars. Most terminals

I'm not so sure about 160 chars, but I do agree that 80 chars is a little ridiculous these days. I have not yet one good argument for 80 chars. Most terminals and monitors today will easily go to 100 chars, which is typically where I prefer to break lines. This gives room for 3-4 levels of nesting (using 4 char tabs), which is about the max depth you'd want to nest. There are exceptions of course but for the most part any more than 3-4 levels deep and you should be looking at refactoring.