Is 78 characters still a good option? Was: [Haskell-cafe] breaking too long lines

[namekuseijin]

It's surely more than enough to Haskell, Python, Perl, C++ and other
very concise and expressive languages.  But for Java and the likes it
may well be just barely enough for a single *identifier* alone!!  :P

2009/4/21 Dusan Kolar <kolar at fit.vutbr.cz>:
> Dear all,
>
>  reading that
>
>> according the several style guides, lines shouldn't be too long
>> (longer than 78 characters).