Interesting language comparison article [OT]

[Hasan Aljudy]

Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
> Ah, yes, that's a good point as well.  I'm very careful to only use 
> reasonable-quality editors, such as Visual Studio (which actually 
> auto-corrects this issue and clears lines that are just whitespace if 
> you don't type anything on them.)

This is why I said it's kind of a high level concept. Too many 
complicated tasks to take care of.
The low cohesion principle says that hard-wired tab character should be 
removed because putting it in ascii code makes things way too 
complicated, when they should be very simple!

Tabs are not elementary; spaces are.

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> And, another point about tabs is that it makes it a lot easier to 
> navigate code with the carrot.  I always assume people who hate hard 
> tabs must not like arrow keys or something....

You know .. I wasn't there (where "there" refers to the whole computer 
scene) before mice & guis.
I generally think that arrow keys are not the way to go for browsing 
text. Just use a mouse!

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> -[Unknown]
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>> Unknown W. Brackets wrote:
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>>> That's only because they are used inconsistently.  The general rule 
>>> is that tabs should never be used after a non-tab character on a 
>>> line. Bam, instant portability and everyone gets their own tab size.
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>> That's a good rule, but you also need to make sure that lines with tab 
>> indentation aren't being mixed with lines with space indentation. Most 
>> editors don't enforce this, but it ought to be solvable. The problem 
>> with tabs might simply be that so many text editors don't handle them 
>> correctly.