It's not really dumb. It's good to have somewhat of a standard. If there's anything wrong with it, it's that it's too big! Ideally we might have settled on s

It's not really dumb. It's good to have somewhat of a standard. If there's anything wrong with it, it's that it's too big! Ideally we might have settled on something like newspaper column widths for readability - which are way less than 80.