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A good question, and appropriate meat for this forum.
In my typing clbutt we were taught to use a 5-column indent. Go figure.
Whether this is where tabs originated could be one of those chicken-and-egg arguments, but I suspect that drum cards were a solution to an existing problem. Besides, they made tabs completely programmable vs. being some fixed number of spaces.
Huh? In my Fortran programming I only used a single tab stop: 7.
blmblm) writes: I view a command-line tool's learning curve as starting off at a higher point than that of a GUI, but it only rises slowly as the complexity...
I had a lifetime of that before C came along:
LA 8,TAB R8 SCANS THE TABLE L 0,L'TAB LENGTH OF ONE TABLE ENTRY L 1,TABLIM FIRST UNUSED SPACE FINDIT CLC 0(4,8),KEY IS THIS THE DESIRED ENTRY? BE FOUNDIT YES BXLE 8,0,FINDIT
This kind of coding is grounds for justifiable homicide.
Amen. A variation of this can be applied to the current generation of GUI programmers.
At least that works. Where it gets strange is with attributes like
char huge *foo, *bar;
Right here, good buddy.
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