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Re: OT - trivial programming language



Incoming from Micha Feigin:
> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 12:00:03PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
> > On 2004-05-28, Einstein9112@yahoo.com penned:
> > > s. keeling wrote:
> > >> 
> > >> However, this is likely only a problem for those of us who hate tabs.
> > >> Those who like tabs are blissfully ignorant of the problems they
> > >> cause.  Thankfully, we've found ways to deal with this ridiculous
> > >> preference of yours (man expand, man unexpand, perldoc Text::Tabs,
> > >
> > > What kind of problems do using tabs cause?
> > 
> > Your editor may not display tabs as the same number of characters as my
> > editor does.
> 
> Then set it to that if you wish to read the file. Both vim and emacs as

Sigh.  Now I have to run to a manpage just to be able to read your
file?


> > Your or my editor may not let you set the tab display size.
> 
> Pretty lame editor. Get a real one.

Now you get to decide what software I use?!?


> > I may or may not feel like changing my tabwidth settings just to read
> 
> Then don't read the g*dd*mn code if you don't want to.

Count on it!


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