Quote Originally Posted by techgnome
It is?

Not in any recent memory of mine.... the days of 80char wide screens is long gone. But on that note, I don't mind a little scrolling, but 200 would be pushing it for me.

-tg

Sure it is. I mean it isnt something that everyone follows. But in general people follow it. My university enforces it pretty strictly. My work asks it of all the employees. And most open source gnu programs follow. It doesnt appear that there is a offical number in the GNU C standards page, but they do talk about keeping your lines short by breaking them up. I did a quick run through some linux kernel code and I didnt see any non commented lines that were long there 80, most the big ones were ~75 chars long. I worked a little on 2 projects www.reactos.org and www.tinykrnl.org and both projects enforced 80 char limits.