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Legacy 12 year old? Try 40 - 45 year old code.

Back when people mandated an 80 character line width because their CRT monitors only had so much resolution

IMHO 80 char lines are easier on my eyes, independent of monitor tech. I get antsy all the way over there on the right! Past 100 chars I am simply less confident in being able to pull off the ocular carriage return to the next line.

I find 80 characters to be too short, and the resulting code after passing through a linter is significantly harder to parse due to the indentation being all over the place.

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