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Daily Archives: October 19, 2021

Tabs or Spaces?

19 Tuesday Oct 2021

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in CS101

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code clarity, computer code, computer programmers, readable code, space character, tab character, text file

There are many issues that divide programmers: operating systems and editors being two huge ones. I’ve worked on too many platforms to care much about the first one, but I’m a lifelong gvim user.

One of the lesser dividing issues involves the crucial source coding choice: Tabs or Spaces? The issue is both less and more important these days. Less because editors are very capable; more because Python is popular.

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