You missed the bulk of the quoted text , which highlights your dismissal of a very prominent company that employs some very talented people as being , effectively , lazy , with a strong implication that any company which sets a standard of using spaces is also thus . That is what I need a citation for . Prove to me that Google set their standard because their employees would be otherwise sloppy and lazy . In other words , prove to me Google had no other logical or relevant reasons to set their styleguide as such . edit I ' d like to point out that they could have also just told everyone to set tabwidth 2 and indeed , if it were all upsides and no downsides as you seem to think , probably would have . <| sep |> I hate everyone in BC now . Jk , looks like I ' ll have to wait till tomorrow for mine