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| From | "Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming, comp.lang.clipper, comp.lang.c, comp.lang.ada, comp.databases.xbase.fox, alt.conspiracy |
| Subject | Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' |
| Date | 2017-06-20 11:44 -0700 |
| Organization | n/a |
| Message-ID | <oibq86$68c$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <oi5vui$cva$1@dont-email.me> <oi78k3$hb4$1@dont-email.me> <MPG.33b0ff99eb1a6e9398ad97@news.eternal-september.org> <oi997u$efv$2@dont-email.me> <MPG.33b25048fa4cebea98ad9b@news.eternal-september.org> |
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On 6/19/2017 7:19 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > In article <oi997u$efv$2@dont-email.me>, invalid@invalid.invalid says... >> >> On 6/18/2017 7:23 PM, J. Clarke wrote: >>> In article <oi78k3$hb4$1@dont-email.me>, invalid@invalid.invalid says... >>>> >>>> On 6/18/2017 6:45 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Computer programmers who use spaces as part of their coding earn $15,370 >>>>> (£12,000) more per year than those who use tabs, a survey of developers >>>>> has revealed. >>>>> >>>>> Full story: <http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40302410> >>>>> >>>>> The survey found the salary difference stretched across different >>>>> languages, countries and experience levels. >>>>> >>>>> The debate over whether it is better to use spaces or tabs to indent >>>>> code has raged among programmers for years. >>>>> >>>>> Indents act like paragraph markers and help define how programs work. >>>>> >>>>> The result was "surprising," said David Robinson, data scientist at >>>>> Stack Overflow which carried out the survey of 12,400 developers. >>>>> >>>>> 'Pepsi or Coke question' >>>>> >>>>> ... more .... >>>>> >>>>> Whether tabs or spaces were used could have an impact, he said, when >>>>> hand-written code was turned into working software. This process is >>>>> handled by a separate program called an interpreter or compiler. Some of >>>>> these can crash if they encounter something, such as a tab, when they >>>>> were only expecting spaces. >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>>>> >>>> >>>> What about setting up the single press of the tab key to insert n >>>> spaces? ;^) >>> >>> That's what he said. >>> >>> However generally speaking an editor that is set up to insert tabs has no >>> problem _displaying_ code that was indented with spaces. >>> >>> >> >> For some reason I was thinking of the following video clip from the >> Silicon Valley series on HBO: >> >> https://youtu.be/SsoOG6ZeyUI >> >> This person actually presses the damn space key n times, where n is the >> number of spaces. WOW! >> >> ;^) > > If the series is all like that I'm glad I never watched it. There's > something _wrong_ with that boy. Lol! The character might be suffering from a bit of Asperger's syndrome.
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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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