From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:24:28 -0500
Date: 2017-06-22T21:24:28-05:00 [thread overview]
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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>
So now I finally know why Janus/Ada wasn't more successful in the Ada
marketplace. :-)
Aside: we started using tabs in our early programs because the storage space
for source, like everything, was very limited. The early computers we
developed on had dual floppy drives, one of which was devoted to the OS and
(if we were lucky) the compiler. The second disk had to have the source
code, the compilation artifacts, and anything else. (And testing was usually
accomplished by copying the newly created executable to a testing disk,
which would usually contain a minimal versionn of the OS as well [which
saved copying effort].) I did a LOT of disk changing in those days.
Randy.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-18 13:45 [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more' Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-18 20:13 ` Per Sandberg
2017-06-18 23:03 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-19 0:22 ` Lew Pitcher
2017-06-19 5:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2017-06-19 14:28 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-20 3:00 ` Snit
2017-06-21 12:57 ` lyttlec
2017-06-19 10:46 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 1:19 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-19 2:23 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-19 19:42 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-20 1:49 ` frankmanning
2017-06-20 2:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2017-06-21 13:02 ` lyttlec
2017-06-20 2:19 ` J. Clarke
2017-06-20 18:44 ` Chris M. Thomasson
2017-06-21 13:07 ` lyttlec
2017-06-19 10:47 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 11:24 ` AnthonyL
2017-06-19 12:26 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-19 13:53 ` JJ
2017-06-19 14:27 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-06-20 21:51 ` Anton Shepelev
2017-06-21 10:27 ` jm.tarrasa
2017-06-21 12:27 ` Simon Wright
2017-06-22 0:09 ` Robert Eachus
2017-06-21 16:48 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2017-06-21 16:52 ` Mr. Man-wai Chang
2017-07-05 18:36 ` Adam Jensen
2017-06-23 2:24 ` Randy Brukardt [this message]
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