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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
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Sunday June 18 2017, @06:09AM (2 children)
You need a law that says "No text editor or IDE will allow the combination of characters {Carriage Return}{Space} or {Carriage Return}{LineFeed}{Space}".
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday June 18 2017, @10:23AM
Nah, not a law. Just an exemption in the law to allow battering anyone caught inserting such into code about the head and shoulders.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 19 2017, @05:27AM
/**
* This is a long comment, the * at the beginning of the text
* on these lines is optional.
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is perverse. (And I hope that comes out as intended, preview was showing that slash is reformatting things.
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