Re: Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: [Haskell-cafe] breaking too long lines

Dusan Kolar wrote: ...

Or is the reason much deeper? Or, is the bound set to 78 characters just because it is as good number as any other? ... As a little historical detour I think the 80 character limit goes back to 1928 when IBM designed their punched card format

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card#IBM_80_column_punch_card_format I guess it subsequently got embedded into printing and screen widths and related software. The slightly less than 80 characters allows for CR LF characters. Richard.