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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org> writes:

> Peter C. Chapin wrote:
>>
>> That said, with Ada I'm seriously considering extending my allowed lines to
>> 128 characters. Between long, fully spelled out names and avoidance of 'use'
>> statements Ada source lines can get pretty long!
>
> I have long used 130-character lines. That prints legibly in landscape mode.

Lineprinters had 132 columns as I remember.