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On 5/13/2014 6:55 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 13 May 2014 04:52:26 -0700, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>
>>> What this goes to show is that while 80 is ridiculously low by most
>>> displays today,
>>
>> Not for people who like to has two (or three, or four) windows side-by-
>> side. Or multiple views of the same document.
>
> There's also the fact that, while the capacity of monitors to display
> pixels has dramatically increased in recent decades, the capacity of
> human cognition to scan long lines of text has not increased at all in
> that time.

> The 80 character line limit is *not* driven by a limitation of computer
> technology; it is driven by a limitation of human cognition. For that
> reason, it remains relevant until human cognition in the general reading
> population improves.

I use the monitor capacity to have 2 or even 3 code windows open 
side-by-side. Really handy.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy