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I know there needs to be a limit, but it strikes me that the days of punch cards are long gone. Does anyone have a browser with that little display real estate these days? --[[User:Dgamey|Dgamey]] 01:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
:We used 80 characters as a style rule at RIT also. It's mostly for terminal windows which usually start at 80 characters. I think it's a fairly widely used standard. I know Eclipse (the IDE) defaults to breaking lines at 80 characters when you use its built-in code formatter. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 03:37, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
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Why 80?
I know there needs to be a limit, but it strikes me that the days of punch cards are long gone. Does anyone have a browser with that little display real estate these days? --Dgamey 01:53, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
- We used 80 characters as a style rule at RIT also. It's mostly for terminal windows which usually start at 80 characters. I think it's a fairly widely used standard. I know Eclipse (the IDE) defaults to breaking lines at 80 characters when you use its built-in code formatter. --Mwn3d 03:37, 22 September 2010 (UTC)