From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. Clarke" 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: Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:03:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <_9B1B.213777$gM7.90022@fx44.am4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="563c9ab39f93a6e8c21913166c41fb2c"; logging-data="27144"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+kD9HctUt9POWeuaIqiXvSl6yzDmUkFko=" User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:guHfz5+XM3/k3URNI4qwU6oLCLY= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.programming:20005 comp.lang.clipper:3012 comp.lang.c:191369 comp.lang.ada:46996 comp.databases.xbase.fox:160 alt.conspiracy:352382 Date: 2017-06-18T19:03:53-04:00 List-Id: In article <_9B1B.213777$gM7.90022@fx44.am4>, per.s.sandberg@bahnhof.se says... > > This makes perfect sense ! > > But this is the same class of statistics that tells you that milk is > causing accidents since the number of children in injured in car > accidents in an area is direct proportional to the consumption of milk > in the same area. OK, so tell us what is the third factor that results in programmers who use spaces being paid more than programmers who use tabs.