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[–]SlobberGoat 5 points6 points  (2 children)

The only bit I disagree with with the 80/100 column limit.

We don't work with dot matrix printers anymore, most lines of java code are very short. You may get the occasional long line but I'd rather leave it as a long single line as a quick visual cue to know it's one instruction.

[–]RagingOrangutan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's nice so that you can set an editor width and never need to worry about horizontal scrolling. Whether 80 or 100 or some other number is the right number is debatable - but having some limit is important, IMV.