On 2011-07-22, John Gordon wrote: > In <98u00kfnf...@mid.individual.net> Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> writes: > >> You can fit much more code per unit of horizontal space with a >> proportionally spaced font. As a result, that issue, while valid, >> is significantly reduced. > > Is it? I assume one major reason for the 80-character limit is to help > the poor sod who will eventually get stuck working with your code on an > 80-column fixed width terminal window. >
It's also because many people report that it's easier to read text when it's not wider than ~75 characters. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
