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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 21:24:28 -0500
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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.