And that is why, 25 years on, I still use hard tabs rather than spaces. I got into the habit on the Amstrad CPC using the Maxam assembler. 40k was the limit fo

And that is why, 25 years on, I still use hard tabs rather than spaces. I got into the habit on the Amstrad CPC using the Maxam assembler. 40k was the limit for a source file and some of the stuff I did, like a UK-wide route-planning program (think an enormously primitive version of Autoroute), seriously pushed that. Having hard tabs, rather than eight spaces, was a major memory saving, while still retaining readable code. Well, as readable as Z80 ever got. Haven't managed to wean myself off them since...