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

[lyttlec <lyttlec@removegmail.com>]

On 06/19/2017 10:19 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
You have obviously never had to work in an organization where HR thought
that being able to play lots of games on x-box made good programmers.
Those kids can hit the space bar real fast.