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Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
- bdfh42 14y agoAnd back in the 70s we used hand punches to encode EBCDIC characters onto an 80 column punch card to make minor corrections to our COBOL programs. After a while you could punch out a new card in very short order as your hands grew used to the "shape" of each number and letter.