Look, if you're a web developer and you're not using a GUI editor, then how the heck are you productive in a day? And if you're using a terminal window and you don't have at least 110 characters available to you on a screen, then what kind of programmer are you?
Plain and simple, folks, 80 char wraps have gone the way of the dinosaurs. Most people either have these widescreen laptops now or they have at least a 19" monitor that can display 1280x1024 pixels.
Recently I was sent this link...
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/EightyColumnRule
...and I tell you, this has vanished in today's modern world. We need to use a new standard of at least 100 characters, if not 110. (Now, 120 might be pushing it, but possible.)
Next, a team lead asked me to do spaces instead of tabs. Well, I'm sorry folks, but tabs are more efficient, take up smaller file sizes, and I don't give a dill about why emacs has trouble with tabs instead of spaces. Tabs are NOT evil.
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