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Re: OT - trivial programming language



On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 01:13:38PM +1000, Cameron Hutchison wrote:
> Once upon a time Micha Feigin said...
> > 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 or my editor may not let you set the tab display size.
> > > 
> > Pretty lame editor. Get a real one.
> 
> It's not just editors though. To view a file, most of the time I'll use
> less(1). Other times I'll cat(1) it to an xterm and use the scrollback
> buffer. When printing, mostly I'll use a2ps(1), but sometimes use
> mpage(1) or just send the text to lpr(1).
> 
> These are just the programs I use. Others will undoubtedly use other
> programs. All these programs are going to need a consistent way to deal
> with tab expansion.
> 
> I dont mind people using tabs as long as the tab stop is set to 8 -
> because that's what all programs expect as a default. 
> 

And thats what I do. Tabs at 8 indentation at 4.

> I still prefer to avoid tabs, though.
> 
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