[zyb09]

I thought these two were pretty good:

“Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.” — Linus Torvalds

That's how I always feel when people have lengthy discussions about spaces vs tabs. Good truth coming from the man himself.

“Sufficiently advanced trolling is indistinguishable from thought leadership.”

Kinda scary true, when you see how some online communities, that started mostly as trolling, became real idiologys over time.

[hyperpallium]

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won’t usually need your flowcharts; they’ll be obvious. Brooks

[tome]

Linus's quotation is similar to Wadler's law:

> In any language design, the total time spent discussing a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to the power of its position.

> 0. Semantics

> 1. Syntax

> 2. Lexical syntax

> 3. Lexical syntax of comments

http://wiki.c2.com/?WadlersLaw

[jwdunne]

And on that, I believe Linus uses 8-wide tabs. You are, apparently, doing it wrong if that causes problems.

[falcolas]

Given the ease with which editors resize tabs, and given the problems caused by excessively nested code: seems reasonable.

[dmckeon]

4. Format of whitespace