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Article #73Re: Which one for Newbie (Java - Eclipse or JBuilder)
From: Chad Myers
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:14
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 22:14
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"Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com> wrote in message news:3d3c79d7@news.tce.com... > "Chad Myers" <cmyers@N0.S.P4.M.austin.rr.com> wrote in message > news:fJY_8.160787$eF5.4247098@twister.austin.rr.com... > > > > "Dale King" <KingD@TCE.com> wrote in message news:3d3c4db4@news.tce.com... > > > "Jezuch" <jezuch@interia.pl> wrote in message > > > news:rs5bjuok6d7urbm0kl3pti3q18mknvsaur@4ax.com... > > > > Pewnego, oczywiscie beznadziejnego dnia 16 Jul 2002 15:08:54 -0700, > > > > ryan_breidenbach@hotmail.com (Ryan Breidenbach) wykrztusil(a): > > > > > > > > >Tabs suck. Peroid. > > > > > > > > Spaces suck. Period. > > > > > > > > > Spaces 100% portable. > > > > Not so. Depending on the font you're using, spaces can look attrocious. > > In what way can a space look attrocious? It is blank space. I suppose you > could have a font that gave you two inches of blank space for every space, > but that is hardly a portability issue. Believe it or not, there are some people who use proportional-width fonts for development, and spacing screws that all up. Hardly any of the indents match up. With tabs, they do. > > > > Tabs, rarely portable. > > > > Portable to all modern editors, but not vi or emacs and a handful of > > others. This is the crux. All the stalwarts refuse to enter the modern > > age and expect everyone else to come down to their level. > > Sure all modern editors support them, but how deep? Do I really want to > tweak my editor for every file I load? There are plenty of tools that do not > handle tabs. I know of none that do not handle spaces. Really? Like what? And, I'm talking about modern stuff, Java, C#, maybe C++, not ancient C stuff. -c
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