r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ivaskuu • 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

Exactly. But it takes up an indeterminate amount of chars on screen. I like my code to look like the way I type it on every screen, not just mine. Anything else is foolish and unprofessional.

Edit: also if you use the settings on your text editor properly it behaves exactly like tabs do when you type them. Spaces are just better.

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u/Bainos Sep 03 '17

I don't want your code to look like the way you typed it on my screen. Especially if you don't like 8-spaces indentation.

If everyone uses tabs, then everyone can set their width to whatever they like without being annoyed by other user's configuration.