In my opinion the 80 character limit is mostly for better presentability. If the code appears in a blog post or a book, it is better to read and typeset if it i

In my opinion the 80 character limit is mostly for better presentability. If the code appears in a blog post or a book, it is better to read and typeset if it is less than 80 characters. Though there are several articles[1] which explain other reasons for this legacy limitation. I would be happy to read code more than 80 characters, if it doesn't have to be artificially cut into multiple lines (the screenshot in the post is a pretty good example). In fact, I find 80 characters too less and often set Emacs to use 100 characters as the limit. [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/903754/do-you-still-limit-line-length-in-code http://stackoverflow.com/questions/903754/do-you-still-limit...