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Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:19:52 -0400
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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.