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by wethesheeple 5036 days ago
I subscribe to the Church of Less Than 40 Character Lines, for no other reason than it's easier to read. Doesn't matter if it's code, poetry or prose.

My eyes never need to drift to the right side of the page/screen. Everything is justified at the left. Keep indentation to a minimum. Alas, this is not a popular idea when people write code.

Books, newpapers and magazines often adopt multi-column formats. Why? Does anyone know?

Columns also allow room for comments. Columned class notes are a great example. You can even leave the whole right side of the page clear for adding comments later.

Unconvential perhaps. But very useful.

Anyway, names are arbitrary. They are inherently ambiguous. The truth is that computers work via numbers, not names. As such, naming will always be a subjective affair, to some extent.