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Is the 80 Columns Limit Dead?

Posted by Cliff on from the increased-screen-width dept.

Dancing Primate asks: "Reading through the code of co-workers and various open source projects, I'm finding that people are no longer formatting their code to 80 columns. With most people using X and the wide range of non-vi editors, is the 80 column limitation disappearing? Am I the only one who gets grumpy when I do a diff or print code, and it's hard to read?"

2 of 317 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The Way of the World by .@. · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Look: If you want to whinge about people using 40-80 character lines, then there's nothing stopping you from CONCATENATING THE LINES AT YOUR END.

    You folks seem to want to say that all us 80-column adherents should use autowrapping editors and viewers. Why can't you be arsed to auto-concat lines to whatever length you want, instead?

    Feh.

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  2. zerg by Lord+Omlette · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are plenty of people who write code longer than 80 characters per line. They're called "assholes".

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