I think it's a lucky coincidence that the console width is near the optimal width for eye movement.

that means

I'm pretty sure this has already been investigated by scientists, measuring milliseconds and eye tracking.

Now is code not prose where you fill all columns, it has plenty of whitespace on both sides, it's less likely to lose track.

(Not talking about POD which is prose, and really should abide to 80)

And if you use a fixed comment column like I do, you are easily forced to break the text if the comment gets longer than 3 words.

So I'm not too dogmatic about the 80 limit in my team, but above 100 it gets critical and 120 is the absolut limit.

Perltidy has very good options to handle most of this, unfortunately this is mostly ignored in heated discussions.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: To <=80 char code line length or not by LanX
in thread To <=80 char code line length or not by stevieb

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