On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:39 PM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 02:40 am, Tobiah wrote: > >>> I wonder whether the tabs versus spaces divide is closely aligned to the >>> Windows versus Unix/Linux divide? >>> >>> It seems to me that Unix users are typically going to be using Unix tools >>> which often assume spaces are used for indentation, and consequently cope >>> badly with tabs. >> >> I can't think of any classic Unix tool that behaves in a way that would >> support this point of view. > > And yet I'm forever being told by my Linux sys admin work mates "don't use > tabs, because they break everything". For another example, see JMZ's essay > (its already been linked to twice in this thread, look it up). > > We've had a similar attitude right here from Marko, who insists that > anything except 8-column tabs is the Devil's Work. (Or something like > that -- to be perfectly honest, I'm not really sure I understand *what* > Marko's objection is.) > > So okay, if tabs work fine with Unix tools, why do so many Unix people avoid > tabs as if they were radioactive plague? > > > > > -- > Steve > “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure > enough, things got worse. > > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
I was the first to post that this topic would go nowhere. 77 posts later, for some reason the word 'spaceist' bothers me. Why do people debate spaces versus tabs? I don't think it has to do with spaces or tabs, but something more sociological or psychological. -- Joel Goldstick http://joelgoldstick.com/blog http://cc-baseballstats.info/stats/birthdays -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
