Studies on optimal code width?

Question

If you enable the \"View Right Margin\" in your IDE of choice, it is likely that it will default to 80 characters. I tend to change it to 120 for no reason other than it was th

Answer 1

I distinctly remember reading somewhere (I think it was in Agile Documentation) that for optimal readability a document's width should be about two alphabets, or 60-70 characters. I think the old terminals' line width came in part from that old typographical rule.