> Now I feel like 80 is too high (;´Д`)
The reason I (and many graybeards of old) use 72ch per line is cuz many
terminals back in the day were 80 columns wide, which derives from the
programming punch cards of early computers (the big ones that took up a
whole room)
Many of those early machines would only read and compile the first 72
columns of the card, and the remaining 8 columns would be used for
metadata, flags to say a line was a comment, etc.
When things moved to terminal displays in the 70s, writing in 72ch
lines on 80 columns left you room to comment things out, add ">" s for
quoting, and more ヽ(´ー`)ノ
Reference: 2023/03/07(Tue) 13:28:14