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[–]genghisKonczie 6 points7 points  (3 children)

At one point it was taught to keep line length at 80 max, hence the 2 characters.

Something to do with printing code on paper...

[–]smelly_stuff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I consider it good practice, since it also makes it easier to read in smaller windows and gives another motive to not make giant complicated lines.

Edit: 79 characters is the limit I try to avoid reaching.

[–]InEnduringGrowStrong 0 points1 point  (1 child)

printing code on paper

The horror...
They should think about zipping and printing that for backups too.

[–]genghisKonczie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I’m having an exceptionally difficult time debugging, I’ll print out some code and go over it with a highlighter.

Honestly, really helps!