I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
80 is a guide. It's still used as a hard limit (sometimes 79) in a few places and there's no real reason not to use it where you can.
Sometimes languages are verbose, or variable names cumbersome, but that's why it's a guide rather than a rule. On the other hand, it's a small smell if you can't keep your lines to the same length as other developers on the same project...
I like splitting my logic up so that it's easier to remove a line at a time, and I dislike trying to read long, dense paragraphs of any text - let alone code.
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80 is a guide. It's still used as a hard limit (sometimes 79) in a few places and there's no real reason not to use it where you can.
Sometimes languages are verbose, or variable names cumbersome, but that's why it's a guide rather than a rule. On the other hand, it's a small smell if you can't keep your lines to the same length as other developers on the same project...
I like splitting my logic up so that it's easier to remove a line at a time, and I dislike trying to read long, dense paragraphs of any text - let alone code.