A lot of people code for a living....
Can we now move on?
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Masto
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 10:29 PM
To: dev-list
Subject: RE: Impassioned Plea on Code Style
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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