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> Indenting with tabs too complicated? I meant "Otherwise Make will crash with a cryptic error" and used that as a single example.
by barbazoo 4y ago
> Indenting with tabs too complicated?
I meant "Otherwise Make will crash with a cryptic error" and used that as a single example.
- hedora 4y agoI've found the "make tabs are confusing" crowd heavily overlaps the "python is more readable than perl" crowd. I find the cognitive dissonance amusing.
- lmm 4y agoBoth views come from the same place: the idea that the semantic scoping should match the visual scoping, rather than counting tabs for indentation but not counting visually indistinguishable spaces (make) or ignoring your indentation entirely in favour of what the braces said (perl).