The D Style and tab sizes

Steve Horne stephenwantshornenospam100 at aol.com
Sun Sep 10 15:31:35 PDT 2006


On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:08:21 +1200, "Regan Heath" <regan at netwin.co.nz>
wrote:

>It's not evil, it's miss-understood. If you use it for it's original  
>purpose

It wasn't meant totally seriously.

Mind you, the real original purpose of the tab was data compression.
On teletypes, sending long sequences of spaces was inefficient. At 300
baud it was a big deal.

I find my text documents more readable in their decompressed form ;-)

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