Linus on Line Breaks (2020)
Shorter lines are easier for the eye to visually scan without accidentally skipping up or down during the leftward return saccade.[1]<p>80 characters happens to be just a little longer than the supposedly ideal measure for continuous text promulgated by Robert Bringhurst.[2]<p>I take the even more draconian approach of wrapping to 72 columns when writing comments, after the fashion of PEP 8.[3]<p>Of course, Linus will dictate the style of his projects' codebases as he deems fit.<p>[1]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade</a><p>[2]<a href="http://webtypography.net/2.1.2" rel="nofollow">http://webtypography.net/2.1.2</a><p>[3]<a href="https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length" rel="nofollow">https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-lengt...</a>