&gt; I can get behind most code style guidelines, but people who harp on 80 character line limits drive me nuts. It&#x27;s such a funny anachronism. Is there really someone out there using an editor that can&#x27;t soft-wrap?<p>Personally, I&#x27;d never know. I assume my editors <i>can</i> soft-wrap, but, IME, in terms of being able to easily work on code, lines that fit the window are better than long lines that aren&#x27;t soft-wrapped, and long lines that aren&#x27;t soft-wrapped are better than long-lines that are soft-wrapped, so I don&#x27;t ever use soft-wrapping features.<p>I&#x27;m personally not that tied to 80 characters as a perfect line limit, but its a not unreasonable general guideline for most code in most languages. Like most guidelines, there&#x27;s times when its inconvenient as a hard limit.