Except if you're over 40 and have to use a large font. My font is set so that 80 characters is full-width, those who assume 132 characters and wrap mostly arou

Except if you're over 40 and have to use a large font. My font is set so that 80 characters is full-width, those who assume 132 characters and wrap mostly around 100 make for incredibly horrible code reading experience. I also print out complex code fragments or read them on a tablet. In this format 80 characters or less is also quite excellent. Finally, to I try limit to 76 characters. It permits you to do "> > " in e-mail conversations about the code without having it auto-wrap in mutt.