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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=unavailable 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: "Chris M. Thomasson" 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: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:42:20 -0700 Organization: n/a Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 19:38:38 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c82dac9a889de4944a1c4485c9aa262e"; logging-data="14847"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19LKstuGmmP8HRQm5lElX9GZJJ2/VcK+zs=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha1:bCdB0930Vdztk36viPnjhFOq0fY= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.programming:20024 comp.lang.clipper:3024 comp.lang.c:191482 comp.lang.ada:47020 comp.databases.xbase.fox:172 alt.conspiracy:352416 Date: 2017-06-19T12:42:20-07:00 List-Id: On 6/18/2017 7:23 PM, J. Clarke wrote: > In article , 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: >>> >>> 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! ;^)