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

From Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups comp.programming, comp.lang.clipper, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.ada
Subject Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date 2017-06-21 13:27 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <lyvanp4jaz.fsf@pushface.org> (permalink)
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

> The debate over whether it is better to use spaces or tabs to indent
> code has raged among programmers for years.

Dead simple: use the TAB key to tell the editor to align the
current/selected lines appropriately; and leave the editor to decide
whether to use tab characters (C-I) to implement the indent or just
spaces.

I agree that you have a problem if your project standards require some
weird setting, but it's still a question of customising the editor.

I bet that 90+% of the Ada programmers who've read this thread are using
GNAT, and if they are using either of the most likely editors (GPS or
Emacs) they'll have this sorted for them without any need for fretting
over it.

Anyone who argues for tabs on the grounds that they save space is
clearly living in 1987 at the latest. If you want to save space, why not
remove all comments?

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[BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 21:45 +0800
  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
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-06-18 20:22 -0400
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 22:20 -0400
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-06-19 07:50 +0200
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-06-19 07:24 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2017-06-19 08:28 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:28 +0800
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-06-19 20:00 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 18:46 +0800
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-18 18:19 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-18 22:23 -0400
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-19 12:42 -0700
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:19 -0400
          Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2017-06-20 11:44 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 18:47 +0800
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' nospam@please.invalid (AnthonyL) - 2017-06-19 11:24 +0000
        Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 20:26 +0800
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2017-06-19 20:53 +0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-19 07:11 -0700
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-19 22:27 +0800
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> - 2017-06-21 00:51 +0300
      Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-20 14:56 -0700
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> - 2017-06-21 13:27 +0100
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2017-06-21 05:36 -0700
  Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2017-06-21 18:48 +0200
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-06-22 00:52 +0800
    Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Adam Jensen <hanzer@riseup.net> - 2017-07-05 18:36 +0000

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