As for <TAB>s, <TAB>s have their place. That's "place", singular, not "places", plural. The place for <TAB>s is called Makefile.

And, there's something interesting about that, too! I've met Stu Feldman, the original author of make, and when I asked him about the tab thing, he told me that he never intended for it to be the case. It turns out that by the time he realized his accident, he already had about a dozen people using make, and he made the decision just to keep the tabs because he didn't want to break any existing Makefiles. Now, he's been hearing hell about it ever since. :)

In reply to Re: Re: The classical TAB issue by jryan
in thread The classical TAB issue by Lorand

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