Ok ok ok, everyone can put their "My daddy can beat up your daddy"
attitudes away. MEthinks this topic has run it's course to the point
where it's largely an opinion based forum and making no headway.
Some like certain indent styles, some don't, some deal with it.
Please - I'm getting a headache :)
Christopher Masto wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 06:34:42PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
> > Are the number of people who actually code for a living on this list really
> > this small, or just being silent? Gawd.
>
> I already corrected your confusion once, but you just insulted me.
> You seem to have a seriously inflated ego - which wouldn't be so bad
> if you actually know what you were talking about.
>
> I "code for a living". I have extensive experience with the Unix
> environment and have written code for several open source projects.
> I am currently leading a development team on a very large piece of
> software. In other words, I have experience dealing with coding
> guidelines and multi-developer differences in style and editor
> preferences. My remarks about tabs are based on this experience
> and knowledge. Using tabs is a mistake. Changing editor tab stops
> is a mistake. Expecting tabs to solve the problem of varying
> indentation preferences is a mistake.
>
> There are two solutions - don't use tabs at all (and adapt to the
> existing indentation style of the code you're working on), or mandate
> that tab stops are every 8 characters (and adapt to the existing
> indentation style of the code you're working on). Either way, you're
> going to have to deal with it. I don't like 4-character indents
> either (I prefer 2), but when I'm working on someone else's
> 4-character-indented code, I put up with it. Period.
>
> Still don't believe me? A few minutes with Google backs me up on
> this.
>
> http://www.jwz.org/doc/tabs-vs-spaces.html
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/cml/cstyle/CppCodingStandard.html#indent
> http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~adam/computing/why_no_tabs.html
> http://www.python.org/doc/essays/styleguide.html
> http://www.rudbek.com/Code_gui.htm
> http://aauwww.uni-c.dk/doc/unfp.txt
> http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/cml/cstyle/Wildfire-C++Style.html#HDR13
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~bwmott/www/papers/Guidelines.html
> http://babbage.cs.qc.edu/courses/cs101/Coding_Guidelines.html
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=style&sektion=9
> http://mindprod.com/unmain.html
>
> Now stop yapping.
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