> Many people in our profession write code that's less that 80 characters per line because that's how much you could display on terminals in the 70s.
It's _also_ a very reasonable & readable amount of text in a row. There's nothing wrong with that.
It's _also_ a very reasonable & readable amount of text in a row. There's nothing wrong with that.
To be fair, 120char wide code is also not too bad for this purpose and readability.
Presumably, that's why they used 80 characters in the first place, as anything more is too hard to read.
80 column displays date back to the early 1970s.
I started coding on an 80 column display, and I have no doubt at all that a modern 16:9 monitor that can display a double page PDF or a web page with a variety of fonts is a much better display device.