[NCLUG] Looking at programming languages...

[Duncan McGreggor]

Walker, Philip M (Optical Storage) wrote:

> The comment was inspired by open source code updates I periodically recieve from a very talented Intel engineer.   His code contains mixed tabs and spaces.  I have requested that he avoid the use of spaces, or that he add the following comment within the first 3 lines of each source file:
> 
> # vim:ts=8
> 
> This would help me, since I use vim, but would leave other editors vulnerable to displaying jumbled code.
> 
> Phil

Ah, thanks for clarifying.

Since you've already talked to him about this, I'd encourage you to send 
him the link to PEP 8 (the python coding standard):
   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/

As a talented engineer who programs in python, this should be both 
welcome and relieving to him. Once he starts following it, you're pain 
should go away too :-)

d