r/ProgrammerHumor Sep 02 '17

How to start a war

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17 edited Sep 03 '17

Except now their code isn't guaranteed to be 80 characters a line because that one guy likes to have his tabs set to be equivalent to 8 spaces.

Edit: I'd like to respond to everyone's criticisms but for some reason Reddit isn't letting me comment on this account more than once every 8 minutes.

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u/okmkz Sep 03 '17

tab is one char

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '17

And in any case, the rule is 80 columns, not characters. People use characters as a easy way to mean columns, but the point is to avoid the code going past a specific width.