I think 80-character lines are less an issue of the availability of horizontal screen space and more about readability. Much the same way proper sentence and p

I think 80-character lines are less an issue of the availability of horizontal screen space and more about readability. Much the same way proper sentence and paragraph spacing and structure lend to the readability of long articles or other blocks of text, a properly short line length can lend to the readability of commit logs.