25 Apr
2009
25 Apr
'09
9:38 p.m.
2009/4/21 Edward Kmett
I find a hard 80 character line length limit to be somewhat ridiculous in this day and age. I've long since revised my personal rule of thumb upwards towards 132, if only because I can still show two windows of that side by side with no worries, along with all the IDE browsing baggage, even on a fairly crippled laptop, and I've been able to have 132 columns since I picked up my first vt220 terminal in 1984 or so.
Good catch. But here's another: modern day IDEs like Eclipse or Netbeans offer so friggin' many features all in-you-face at the same time that the puny window reserved for code may be very well in the 80-chars limit anyway. ;)