Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
I agree with Ted. Pick your standards and stick to them. Consistency is key. FYI, I used spaces in FoxPro (DOS) & tabs in VFP. On 4/17/2015 10:04 AM, Ted Roche wrote: Time-wasting trollbait. Pick your standards and deal with the consequences. Learn to cope with other people's code that chose

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 19:04 2015-04-16, Stephen Russell wrote: http://www.itworld.com/article/2909268/the-war-of-the-whitespaces-rages-on-among-programmers.html Which truth would that be? That "45% of respondents said they prefer tabs over spaces for indentation, while 34% preferred spaces" or that "Second

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Ted Roche
Time-wasting trollbait. Pick your standards and deal with the consequences. Learn to cope with other people's code that chose the other standard. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > Pretty much this: > > “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the job’, well tabs are >

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Issue nearly solved by today's text editors such as Sublime Text Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/ Le 17/04/2015 04:04, Stephen Russell a écrit : http://www.itworld.com/article/2909268/the-war-of-the-whitespaces-rages-on-among-program

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
I used tabs, but I re-defined the tab length to 2 instead of 4. :) On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > http://www.itworld.com/article/2909268/the-war-of-the-whitespaces-rages-on-among-programmers.html > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread AndyHC
On 17/04/2015 2:24 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: Pretty much this: “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the job’, well tabs are designed for indentation. So use them, rather than bodge some artificial implementation using an arbitrary number of spaces.” Well yes, use tabs of course, but

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Alan Bourke
Pretty much this: “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the job’, well tabs are designed for indentation. So use them, rather than bodge some artificial implementation using an arbitrary number of spaces.” -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm __

The truth is out now

2015-04-16 Thread Stephen Russell
http://www.itworld.com/article/2909268/the-war-of-the-whitespaces-rages-on-among-programmers.html -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) te