Word. I've always limited line width to < ~80 chars not because that's the way it's always been done, but because long lines don't aid code comprehension. Quite

Word. I've always limited line width to < ~80 chars not because that's the way it's always been done, but because long lines don't aid code comprehension. Quite the contrary. The flip side to the thesis presented in this article is that often things are done a certain way because that way has proven to have some value.