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by lmm 573 days ago
It absolutely does. You might think it would just mean more lines, but that means your functions are longer so you have to break them up more, which means there's a hard limit on how big a coherent thing you can build. If you think it wouldn't matter, try limiting yourself to 60 or 40 character lines in a codebase and see how much it changes.