On 80 columns should (not) be enough for everyone

[Lutger Blijdestijn]

Andrej Mitrovic wrote:

> The unittest topic is about to get derailed so I want to continue this
> silly discussion here.
 
> 80 colums is an artifact of the old age. Just like the preprocessor is an
> artifact of the C language. And many other old things are artifacts.
> There's no reason to keep these artifacts around anymore.

Yes, but there has to be some limit, horizontal scrolling is much worse. 
Someone at my workplace likes to make 400+ columns lines of code for 
example, he likes it but it confuses the shit out of me.
 
> A couple of things, Andrei:
> 1. 80 colums is way too restrictive. 80 columns wasn't determined by some
> scientific method to be a good size for code, it's a product of
> limitations of the older generation hardware. Who will run a brand new
> language like D in a freakin' Terminal?

Terminals can host more than 80 columns these days.

> If you want to see more files on the screen, get multiple screens. Is
> Facebook running out of money, can't they afford a few monitors for the
> C++ guru? Yes, I know you're not allowed to comment on that one. :)

iirc Andrei commented facebook installed him a 30inch screen.