response 8 of 9:

Jan 18 01:57 UTC 2010

resp:6 That sort of pre-dates Python by a good few years.
By the time that language came to be, graphic terminals with bitmapped
displays were quite common.  This slavery to 80 column lines is counter-
productive.

That said, I write Python code that's mandated to have 80 column lines
all the time in my civilian job (which I haven't been at in a couple of
months now, but I digress).  See, e.g.,

http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pyguide.html#Line_length

resp:7 132, I believe.