Agree fully, and as mentioned in the article > I tend to stay within it, but I occasionally decide to make my code a little wider. No coding rules should be r

Agree fully, and as mentioned in the article > I tend to stay within it, but I occasionally decide to make my code a little wider. No coding rules should be religiously held. If you're trying to re-write an 81 column line to fit the rule, even though it's concise and more readable at 81 columns, you're doing it wrong.