Re: Tabs As Syntax

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I took at the look at the Wikipedia page for GNU Make, the wonderful build
automation tool, and I found an interesting comment.
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Make uses a tab character as part of its syntax.  Any competent text editor
(except on Microslop) will clearly distinguish between tabs and spaces, but
some still find the practice abhorrent:
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'This aspect of the syntax of makefiles is often subject to criticism; it
has been described by Eric S. Raymond as "one of the worst design botches
in the history of Unix" and The Unix-Haters Handbook said "using tabs as
part of the syntax is like one of those pungee stick traps in The Green
Berets".'
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Gee.  I wonder what these dudes would think of Python?

The usage of spaces or tabs to determine statement scope is a great big
turnoff for me.

I don't subscribe to Guido's opinion on the visual ease of indentation.
It's easier to search for braces and use whatever indentation makes it
easy to read in context.

The beauty of C is that white space is not significant except in quotes.

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