[eru]

> Because why insist in short names and 80 width character limit? Almost everyone have a screen that can fit hundreds of characters per line today.

Yet, books don't work that way, even though we have the technology. Long lines aren't readable. There's a reason newspapers have columns.

See eg https://baymard.com/blog/line-length-readability and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length

[mmis1000]

Even without the line length problem, 8 character is unlikely to fit in a meaningful word. And because you need a space between each column, you actually only have 7. And nobody using random abbreviations now.