Re: Spaces vs tabs: what is right for SW?

Sarven,
I suppose you refer to the indentation of RDF/XML, right?


On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Christoph, Pascal <christoph@hbz-nrw.de>
wrote:

> Johannes Wilm wrote on 10/29/17, 10:33 AM :
>
> > Programming artists using spaces earn more money than those using tabs
> [1].
>
> ah - nice :)
>
> > So I guess by using tabs one proves that one is an idealist not caring so
> > much about material things. ;)
>
> ... thus making tabs the _natural_ choice for SW ;)
>
> oo
>
> >
> >
> >
> > [1]
> > https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/06/15/1431253/
> developers-who-use-spaces-make-more-money-than-those-who-use-tabs
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Stephen D. Williams <sdw@lig.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Tabs are pretty much forbidden in source code of any kind, except
> >> Makefiles.  Because Microsoft went a different way than the Unix world,
> and
> >> now we all play together on the same projects, code, etc., tabs aren't
> >> allowed in any sane environment anymore.  All or nearly all coding
> >> standards dictate spaces only, which programming editors can be
> configured
> >> for.
> >>
> >> sdw
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/28/17 10:33 AM, Nathan Rixham wrote:
> >>
> >> I like 2 spaces, but tabs are considerably less bytes down the wire.
> >>
> >> On 28 Oct 2017 18:23, "Sarven Capadisli" <info@csarven.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Discuss.
> >>>
> >>> -Sarven
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