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From: lyttlec <lyttlec@removegmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:02:48 -0400
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On 06/19/2017 10:18 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2017 18:49:12 -0700 (PDT), frankmanning@earthlink.net
> declaimed the following:
> 
>> I remember the whole tabs-vs-spaces thing was a sore subject when I got my first programming job in 1981. To me it's unbelievable that it's still unresolved 36 years later.
> 
> 	It's a significant factor for Python. Tabs are considered equivalent to
> 8-space indent, regardless of how the editor is configured to display them.
> 
> 	Someone using a 4-space display editor /sees/
> 
> <sp><sp><sp><sp>code
> <tab>code
> 
> as being the same level of indent, the Python parser sees 
> 
> <4-sp>code
> <8-sp>code
> 
> hence different indentation levels -- and since Python uses indent level to
> determine the end of code blocks, it will object.
> 
A-HA, that explains why Python programmers make such poor programmers
overall.