Timeline for Why is 80 characters the 'standard' limit for code width?
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| Feb 19, 2022 at 5:40 | comment | added | DrBeco | Gopher text size is 67 width. | |
| Oct 22, 2021 at 20:00 | history | bounty awarded | user3342816 | ||
| Jun 23, 2020 at 7:19 | history | edited | sleske | CC BY-SA 4.0 | update dead link |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 20:38 | comment | added | sleske | @PabloAriel: If you disagree with my answer, feel free to write your own. That's what this site is about. | |
| Mar 30, 2020 at 19:45 | comment | added | Pablo Ariel | 80 characters per line completely break reading ergonomics. You can see how Wikipedia is best-suited for reading and is particularly wider than other websites (including this one). A general rule is that whatever makes your code to need more scrolling to be read is a bad idea, because you lose context and you have to waste time scrolling in order to read something. I have plenty of code that proves this and I'm working on a formula which calculates a readability index and which proves you're wrong and that short lines are the worst. | |
| Jan 10, 2019 at 15:33 | comment | added | kakyo | I love this answer because it goes beyond specific technology and avoids the pursuit of the "true" original tech. | |
| Jan 3, 2014 at 8:26 | history | answered | sleske | CC BY-SA 3.0 |