About the 79 character line recommendation

[Olivier Langlois]

Hi,

There was a coding standard where I worked and the intention behind this
requirement was to make the code printer friendly. Printing code source
with lines longer than 80 chars greatly hinder readability on paper.

Greetings,
Olivier Langlois
http://www.olivierlanglois.net
> 
> I also think that limiting code to 80 columns often hinders
> readability. I personally try to limit my code to 100 columns. The end
> result is pretty nice.
> 
> However, I'm all for the "flat is better than nested" philosophy, even
> when nested is under 100 columns.
> 
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