[clue-tech] OT: Tabs vs. Spaces in Source (Was: Son's PC and intro to programming)

[William]

David L. Anselmi wrote:
> I don't want to start a religious debate, but ignoring presentation (and 
> mixed tabs+spaces, that's stupid) why don't tabs make more sense in Python?

Religious zealots will tell you that some software (editors, parsers, 
etc.) don't handle the embedded tab character correctly.  I can't 
remember where, but I ran into a web site a while back where the author 
literally spent an entire page arguing avidly against using tab 
characters in ANY source code, regardless of language.  Some people 
choose to crusade strongly on this "issue".

It is my opinion that any software which cannot handle the tab character 
properly should be fixed, but there are a lot of crazy people out there 
who will likely say otherwise for reasons that are probably obscure and 
should be resolved after all these years.  ;)  Because this is a 
religious matter, this will be my only post on this thread.  I've added 
my opinion, and that's about all that any of us can do on this 
particular matter.

In any event, aren't we all WAY off-topic here?
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