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["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <ThompBil AT exchange.uk.ml.com>]

for my two cents, i'm with bob. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Kline [SMTP:bkline AT rksystems.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2002 1:28 PM
> To:   TDS Development Group
> Subject:      [freetds] Re: indent(1) bent
> 
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, James K. Lowden wrote:
> 
> > I like tabs.  They're more flexible than blanks.
> 
> I know this risks starting a religious bloodbath, but I'll register a
> different opinion.  I think tabs are horrible.  Ever since editors had
> the capability of visually representing tabs as a configurable number of
> spaces (a long time ago) I've worked on few multi-developer projects in
> which all the developers agreed on (a) whether tabs should be used and
> (b) how many spaces the tabs represent.  As a result, most source code
> ends up very difficult to read, because no matter what you tell your
> editor about how to represent the tab, code which has been touched by
> more than one developer doesn't have consistent visual indentation.
> The only projects on which consistent, legible code had a prayer were
> those in which hard tabs were avoided completely.
> 
> That's my 2 cents.
> 
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> Bob Kline
> mailto:bkline AT rksystems.com
> http://www.rksystems.com
> 
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