Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption

[Walter Bright]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> But really, I don't see why the whole issue hasn't already been made 100% 
> personal style by a VCS that handles it the same way SVN handles EOLs. If 
> one person has problems involving another person using a different 
> indentation system, then at least one of them is doing something very wrong. 
> Seriously, how is it that this is 2010, we have things like syntax 
> highlighting as standard featutres in every editor that anyone ever actually 
> uses...and yet the whole world of programmers still can't abstract away 
> something as simple as f*cking tab sizes? Bah!


It all started in the 80's when someone wrote a text editor that had 
customizable tab lengths (before then, tabs were 8. End of story.). Things went 
downhill from there. Since there's no way for an editor to figure out what the 
tab setting might be for any particular file, the only solution that works is to 
not use tabs. Thanks to some nameless programmer who ruined it for everyone <g>.