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posted by n1 on Sunday June 18 2017, @12:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-your-bar-tab dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

The annual Stack Overflow developer surveys often include lots of bad news. "People still use PHP," for example, is a recurring and distressing theme. "Perl exists" is another.

But never before has the survey revealed something as devastatingly terrible as the 2017 survey. Using PHP and Perl are matters of taste. Extremely masochistic taste, certainly, but nobody is wrong for using those languages; it's just the programming equivalent of enjoying Adam Sandler movies. But the 2017 survey goes beyond taste; it goes into deep philosophical questions of right and wrong, and it turns out that being wrong pays more than being right.

Developers who use tabs to indent their code, developers who fight for truth and justice and all that is good in the world, those developers have a median salary of $43,750.

But developers who use spaces to indent their code, developers who side with evil and probably spend all day kicking kittens and punching puppies? Their median salary is $59,140.

Source: ArsTechnica


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @01:31AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 18 2017, @01:31AM (#527252)

    1. Storage is cheap
    2. Compression algorithms can strip that shit out. Wait, what...? We don't do gzipped tarballs anymore?

  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday June 18 2017, @02:04AM

    by Arik (4543) on Sunday June 18 2017, @02:04AM (#527269) Journal
    "1. Storage is cheap
    2. Compression algorithms can strip that shit out. Wait, what...? We don't do gzipped tarballs anymore?"

    Just because the harm can be mitigated is no reason to deliberately keep doing the thing that causes it. For this to be valid logic you'd need a third piece that you don't have, some sort of benefit to be gained by deliberately misusing spaces where tabs should be. Without such a benefit, this isn't even good sophistry.
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