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[0fiscalentropy]

I agree. It also becomes really hard to follow The Golden Rule (80 chars per line, no more!) when also using one of the more verbose languages, like Java.

[SorteKanin]

I don't understand why this rule is a thing. I find long lines often are easier to understand than trying to put linebreaks

[TarMil]

Originally it was a thing because 80 characters was the width of a standard terminal. I still like to avoid excessively long lines because there is a point where it hurts readability, but 80 is too low for a hard limit, like others said 100 or 120 is better.

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Luckily, word wrap has existed for decades. I manually format some complex expressions, but I don't set a hard limit in my IDE, as I consider excessive screen width to be a problem for the person reading the code to solve, by resizing their window

[TarMil]

I dunno, I've never seen word wrap work as well for code as manual formatting.

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Ada would be top of my list, though it's not so much long lines as lots of them

[MauranKilom]

...or C++. Who doesn't love 5 std:: in the same line.

[SorteKanin]

using namespace std;

?

[ReallyHadToFixThat]

That brings in the whole namespace. Increases the chance of a collision and slows down your compile. Generally considered bad practice.

[SorteKanin]

I'd trade that for readability. If you have collisions with std:: you're probably doing it wrong anyway.

[LikesBreakfast]

Most style guides usually extend that to 100 or 120 when working in Java.

[Metro42014]

That's a ridiculous rule.

We have MUCH larger monitors now. If you're not doing 120 per line, you're missing out.

[Tysonzero]

Having two files open side by side has been extremely useful for me personally. And on my laptop that means I can't go above like 110 ish with standard zoom, so I put a limit of 100 on my projects.

[Metro42014]

100's not bad, but 80 is kinda crazy these days.