Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?

On 27/02/2025 15:47, David Brown wrote:

 Newspaper columns are often much shorter - 30 to 40 characters.  So why is that?

Because newspapers are basically in portrait format, so long thin columns fit well.
Computer terminals, back in the day, were basically square, so 80 columns was often a hard limit.
Now you have larger landscape screens, with windows that can be stretched as wide as you like.