I have a few reasons why I still think 80 characters is a great limit. Readability. It's difficult enough to read through long lines of normal text on a badly

I have a few reasons why I still think 80 characters is a great limit. Readability. It's difficult enough to read through long lines of normal text on a badly formatted website. Naming. I could go on about this one. Namespacing was created for a reason, don't write any long names. This most often will make your code considerably shorter. Formatting. If you have short names and you're still ending up will the long lines, you need to understand how to format your code properly.