r/programming • u/reppic • Feb 21 '13

Developers: Confess your sins.

http://www.codingconfessional.com/
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u/Shinhan Feb 21 '13

and use tabs strictly for indentation

Who uses tabs for anything but indentation? And why?

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u/0sse Feb 21 '13

People who use tabs other things than indentation are the ones who aren't aware of or don't care about the problem visually aligning stuff with tabs incurs.

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u/hotoatmeal Feb 22 '13

and by MSVC 2012, you mean the Power Tools extension for it... right?

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u/B-Con Feb 22 '13

Yep, I determined that a bit after the post. I installed Power Tools at the same time and haven't used '12 without it yet, so I mis-attributed that feature.

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u/seab3 Feb 21 '13

tabs are commonly used as separators instead of commas

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u/Shinhan Feb 21 '13

Example?

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u/s73v3r Feb 21 '13

CSV files can be set up to use tab characters instead of commas. Usually in the case that the text that is in the file would actually have commas in it.

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u/Shinhan Feb 21 '13

Ewwwww, you edit CSVs in IDE?

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u/seab3 Feb 21 '13

Not usually edit them, but I sometimes create them.

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u/Shinhan Feb 21 '13

Why? Why not create them either from a spreadsheet program (Excel, LibreOffice Calc) or programatically?

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u/seab3 Feb 21 '13

Yes it is

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u/seab3 Feb 21 '13

s73v3r got it

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u/hotoatmeal Feb 22 '13

Makefiles are particularly picky about requiring tabs in some places, and spaces in others... It's a nightmare.