tabs do WHAT?

Thomas Hamelryck thamelry at vub.ac.be
Tue Jan 25 03:53:32 EST 2000


Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:

[snip]
: like-sex-is-great-but-should-not-be-part-of-life-ly y'rs  - tim

Good analogy, actually. Sex is great, but should never be forced
on you.

BTW, people here seem to have adopted the idea that if you don't like
a particular feature of a language, you should abandon it (e.g., "You 
don't like indentation? Use Perl!"). But many languages have evolved 
exactly this way: users criticize, complain, praize and whine, thereby
influencing the shape of the languge in question. You can find a very 
nice description of this process with respect to C++ in "The Evolution 
of C++ : Language Design in the Marketplace of Ideas", by Jim Waldo 
(Editor), James Waldo (Editor).

Cheers,

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Thomas Hamelryck    Institute of Molecular and Structural Biology 
Aarhus University   Gustav Wieds Vej 10C 
DK-8000 Aarhus C    Denmark                   








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