Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'

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On Tuesday, June 20, 2017 at 11:51:24 PM UTC+2, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> JJ:
> 
> > Tab characters are annoying.  They messes the cur-
> > sor's  column  position  when  it's  being   moved
> > up/down and through the middle of the non existing
> > space which was generated by the tab character.
> 
> There is a standard convention that  works  100%  of
> the time:
>                  Indent with tabs
>                  Align with spaces
> 
> Such code will look good regardless of the tab width
> used in the editor, so that each programmer may  set
> up whatever tab width he prefers.

+1

Julio

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  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Per Sandberg <per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se> - 2017-06-18 22:13 +0200
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 19:03 -0400
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  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-06-19 20:53 +0700
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  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> - 2017-06-21 13:27 +0100
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    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net> - 2017-07-05 18:36 +0000

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