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

["Chris M. Thomasson" <invalid@invalid.invalid>]

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!

;^)