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

Eradicating tabs is deadly serious.  A Mars probe could crash some day without your cooperation.  ;-)

sdw

On 10/30/17 1:30 PM, Dimitris Kontokostas wrote:
> Dear Ali,
>
> It was an (unsuccessful is seems) attempt to continue this funny thread with an RDF format that no one uses anymore and, the ones 
> that have to, most probably don't write it by hand.
>
> Best,
> Dimitris
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> On Oct 30, 2017 15:59, "Ali SH" <asaegyn+out@gmail.com <mailto:asaegyn%2Bout@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Dmitris,
>
>     Sarven was making commentary on asinine debates (see Java vs JS) programmers can get into, referencing a joke from an American
>     comedy called Silicon Valley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)#Other_reactions
>     <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_%28TV_series%29#Other_reactions> - see last paragraph of that section).
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>     It's been fun (and unfortunately validating) seeing it taken as a semi-serious question!
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>     On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:50 AM, Dimitris Kontokostas <jimkont@gmail.com <mailto:jimkont@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         Sarven,
>         I suppose you refer to the indentation of RDF/XML, right?
>
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>         On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Christoph, Pascal <christoph@hbz-nrw.de <mailto:christoph@hbz-nrw.de>> wrote:
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>             Johannes Wilm wrote on 10/29/17, 10:33 AM :
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>             > 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
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>             >
>             >
>             >
>             > [1]
>             >
>             https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/06/15/1431253/developers-who-use-spaces-make-more-money-than-those-who-use-tabs
>             <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 <mailto: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 <mailto:info@csarven.ca>> wrote:
>             >>
>             >>> Discuss.
>             >>>
>             >>> -Sarven
>             >>> http://csarven.ca/#i
>             >>
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