4 Mar
2021
4 Mar
'21
5:59 p.m.
Oh boy, you do want to pour muddy water on the table. I generally
believed in tabs set every 4 spaces. That's Steven's used in all his UNIX
books. Have to ask Rob what and bwk used but I sort of think it was pretty
similar. A problem is a lot of people had tabs set at 8 spaces.
Clem
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On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote:
OK. So, I've been trying to decide (for the last
time, I swear) whether to
use tabs or spaces in my code... I did a quick pulse-check on the state of
argument and it appears to be alive and well in 2021. My question for y'all
is, was there a preference in the very early days or not? I saw an article
talking about the 20 year feud, but that's not my recollection. In 1994,
nobody agreed on this, but I'm sure it predates my entree into the field.
I'm thinking the history of entab and detab are somehow related, but I've
been wrong on these sorts of thoughts before. What say you?
Will