tabs, spaces, and retarded programmers
Posted by Stephen Waits Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:31:57 GMT
Wow, I ran across Elastic tabstops - the solution to the tabs-versus-spaces issue (via reddit) today. This is actually unbelievable to me.
It made me realize, again, that people are retarded. Like many of you, I experience this realization every day of my life.
The solution to this problem has always been simple. Use both tabs and spaces. Tabs control indentation, spaces control alignment. It’s easy, doesn’t slow your coding down a bit, and will render perfectly in every editor in the world.
I’ve been doing this for a decade+ myself, and have trained, or at least attempted to train many others in such elegance. For more detail, take a look at where I described this in detail several years ago in this Usenet post.