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by a3n 3368 days ago
While it's true that most of us have more than 80 character width displays most of the time, reducing the strength of that argument ... I dislike having to turn my head to read a long line. Personal preference of me.

I also think that code that has been constrained to 80 columns reads better. Personal opinion of me.

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I agree that it reads a lot better and if you have to scroll horizontally it reads a whole lot worse, as a C# dev I have to constantly scroll back and forth to read a particular code block. I'm pretty sure C# code would fail terribly at fitting within 80 chars w/ its long names and generic type declarations and everything being indented withing a namespace it'd practically be useless to try to edit C# code from a shell interface.