> you get no benefit from writing it in a wider format Putting unlimited characters on a line is not merely a "wider format". It's a way of saying "format it a

> you get no benefit from writing it in a wider format Putting unlimited characters on a line is not merely a "wider format". It's a way of saying "format it as wide as you like", therefore the benefit is not in having a wider format, but one that simultaneously wider and narrower, depending on what's needed. To help visualize the benefit, abolishing line length in prose prevents lines from breaking in unexpected places, when the user's display is narrower than the preformatted text line. I find it extremely jarring. With almost every editor today being able to word wrap, this stops being a problem. While line lengths may be significant for code, where limiting "sentence length" may be useful, prose is an entirely different thing to read.