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The human eye gets tired easily when being forced to scan across wide spans of text. That's why newspaper and magazine articles are split into columns.
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Maybe I'm not human... 
Hogan
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I actually have and like a wide monitor. I do break up a line when something in that line is more readable in a second line. I do this often in SQL like:
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From tblMain m
Left join tblPoop p
On m.thing = p. thing.
That helps to tame the dyslexia for me.
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Its an optimizing cash cow for those who get paid per line of code.
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The resolution of monitors has dropped in recent years -- there was a huge backward reset when HD TVs came out and all the manufacturers retooled for producing flat panel TVs.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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There exists an optimum ratio between the linewidth and the interline spacing. I do not know its exact value but it is defined by the ease of following with the eyes the line and then switching to the next one. This is why the newspapers are printed in narrow columns instead of across the page.
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Several people have mentioned the newspaper example. Its interesting, but code isn't a newspaper article. Rarely do I have several long lines in a row that require wrapping. Most code I see has tons of white space around lines of code for formatting/readability.
Hogan
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At my company our coding standard strongly discourages formatting code that way. We frequently deal with XAML and Win32, so that means we sometimes have really long lines, but that's just how it goes.
It's really rare that anyone needs to actually see the entire line at once. Normally there are just a few items that actually matter, so we try to put those near the beginning of the line when possible (things like Name and Grid.Row/Column in XAML, for example). Generally, we find it much more useful to be able to get a sense of the structure of the code at a glance, and that gets broken when function calls are split into multiple lines. There are some rare cases where it makes sense to do that, of course, but that's stuff like building an xml file using stringstream.
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I guess the new limit is that it can fit on a GitHub page 
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I gave up Visual Studio this year for vi. 80 column lines means I can get six terminal windows open on my 30" monitor and never need to scroll horizontally
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Awesome, Jörgen! +5
/ravi
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Man! it would be difficult to write a novel under those circumstances- you couldn't do any research. Unless you were writing a novel about someone stuck in NSW and descending into madness.
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Paul Kemner wrote: Man! it would be difficult to write a novel under those circumstances- you couldn't do any research.
Hell, I've done it with a typewriter, before the Internet existed. Back then we did research with...books.
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Yes, but I'm assuming that the isolated spot in New South Wales isn't across the street from a well-equipped public library. Probably worse for me, because I'm writing SF and fantasy, so I tend to need answers for odd questions that aren't in a standard encyclopedia. (What was the average current speed of the Nile, pre-Aswan Dam, and how long would it take a sternwheeler to get from Cairo to Dendara? - needed that for a steampunk story!)
The other half of it is that with the net, there will be one person who knows that the sail plan you used for that brigantine in your story wasn't used until 35 years later. And they'll write scathing reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, which everyone will 'like'.
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Ideal. You'd be living high in Perth or Brisbane in a couple of years. With cold beer.
And groupies.
And a house.
With cable. 
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Start a computer museum.
Joop Muis
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Probably you wouldn't really need Internet at all, life would be so beautiful there, simple and unstressful as it should be, without social networks and all that modern rubbish.
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Yes!
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Sing out of tune.... 
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Play Wolf3d all day long!!
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You beat me to it, I was going to say Doom!
- Freedom is the right of all sentient beings -
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Holy crap, this was exactly what I was going to post.. My 486 tower I have in the bone pile actually still has all 6 chapters of Wolf3d and Spear of Destiny still installed. GENIUS! The Pentium tower has Doom 2 and Sim City.
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MechWarrior II! Kneecap 'em all!!!
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