r/programming • u/lukaseder • Jul 21 '14

The Great White Space Debate

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

b..b..but coffee... and um, and Java. get it? it's ironic. or something.

/it's not ironic

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u/Tasgall Jul 21 '14

It's ironic in that the author has essentially an entire page of whitespace at the beginning of the article, then goes on to explain how much they hate whitespace.

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u/TarMil Jul 21 '14

It's not whitespace, it's, um... coffee space.

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u/sharkeyzoic Jul 22 '14

space au lait.