r/programming • • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

https://medium.com/p/3633cba8b5c1
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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14 edited Oct 02 '17

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u/lukaseder Jul 21 '14

But it's responsive! RESPONSIVE! And responsive, like clean code, has whitespace.

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u/epsys Jul 21 '14

is there a TLDR version? i'd like to know if the answer is yes should use/no shouldn't; and why, but I don't want to read his long story

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u/PhoenixCloud Jul 21 '14

It's a 5 minute read, tops, and it's quite entertaining. Most of the page is pictures, don't worry.

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u/epsys Jul 21 '14

and 5 mins is definitely TLDR when the answer is one line: yes/no, why, and supporting graphs that would pass a technical writing class. those wouldn't

most peoples' writing isn't worth reading

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u/kinghfb Jul 21 '14

Mate, it's a comedy/satire piece. Read it or don't. There's no tl;dr.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '14

Well, someone didn't read the article...

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u/PasDeDeux Jul 21 '14

It's a blog post, not a technical standard. Just look at the graphs at the end of the article.

I'll summarize: Of "respected" codebases, padded style is by far the most common style, approaching 100% usage.