With the old style tractor-fed printers (dot matrix, or whatever) I would agree with you, but I think such things are now firmly in the past for most developers.
It ain't about the rise of cheap laser printing either, just think of all the changes that have conspired to make printing less necessary: - bigger higher-resolution screens - CRT replaced with LCD, much easier to look at - Dual-Screen setups are increasingly common - Trend towards smaller objects and methods - Powerful search/analysis features in IDEs - Environmental concerns over wasted paper On 1 July 2010 10:48, Mark Volkmann <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm surprised that all the replies to this thread are in favor of tabs > over spaces. In my experience, the vast majority of developers favor > spaces. For me there is one main reason I prefer spaces ... printers. > Sometimes I print code. Printers seem to always use eight spaces for > tabs which causes many lines to wrap and makes it harder to read the > code. If there were a universal way to adjust that then I'd be okay > with using tabs for indentation. > > This is the same reason why I don't like when lines are longer than 80 > characters. Many of the lines will wrap when printed. Also, I find it > harder to read code with long lines. That's why newspaper columns > don't extend all the way across wide newspaper pages. > > -- > R. Mark Volkmann > Object Computing, Inc. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail/google talk: [email protected] wave: [email protected] skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
