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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada standard and maximum line lengths
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On 01/31/2013 02:10 AM, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de wrote:
>
> Programmers may argue that indention eats up a lot of columns at the left, so
> they need more on the right. But that has to end at some point -- if your
> program is too deeply nested, you should refactorize it, rather than indent even
> more. So 120 characters should be plenty. Anything beyond that should not be
> considered as readable for humans, anymore.

For about 30 yrs, I have used a personal limit of 130 characters for program 
source code. (For work I adhere to the project's coding standard.) I find the 
resulting code quite readable, easier to read than code constrained to 
80-character lines. I have always been able to use an editor that handles entire 
lines easily, and have been able to print 130-character lines when needed.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords
is no basis for a system of government."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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