X-Received: by 10.200.46.82 with SMTP id s18mr12197228qta.85.1497881489453; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:11:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.82.166 with SMTP id f38mr724587oth.8.1497881489410; Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!y44no1084731qth.1!news-out.google.com!k7ni2224itk.0!nntp.google.com!f20no1786583itb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.programming Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 07:11:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <199qat1lcmdkc$.lmbpz7dj77lx.dlg@40tude.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2.33.22.144; posting-account=F3H0JAgAAADcYVukktnHx7hFG5stjWse NNTP-Posting-Host: 2.33.22.144 References: <199qat1lcmdkc$.lmbpz7dj77lx.dlg@40tude.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <788850ef-b81a-483b-9c24-b8964f089c3e@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' From: Julio Di Egidio Injection-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 14:11:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Lines: 17 Xref: csiph.com comp.programming:7859 On Monday, June 19, 2017 at 3:53:48 PM UTC+2, JJ wrote: > On Sun, 18 Jun 2017 21:45:16 +0800, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: > > Professional developers typically set up their coding editor to use > > either tabs or spaces to show the relationships between functional > > elements, he said. Code can get harder to read if viewed in an editor > > expecting tabs and getting spaces or vice versa. > > Tab characters are annoying. It's funny and tragic at the same time to hear all the non-sense about any topic software production... Tabs are in fact the way to go for indentation, they have the abstract meaning of one tab per level of indentation, and how to present that is just the job of an editor: some editors are broken, the rest is the usual band-wagon, i.e. speculations, sabotaging, and of course the widespread incompetence that goes with it. Julio