Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code

[Bryan]

Xah Lee wrote:
> Tabs versus Spaces in Source Code
> 
> Xah Lee, 2006-05-13
> 
> In coding a computer program, there's often the choices of tabs or
> spaces for code indentation. There is a large amount of confusion about
> which is better. It has become what's known as “religious war” —
> a heated fight over trivia. In this essay, i like to explain what is
> the situation behind it, and which is proper.
> 
> Simply put, tabs is proper, and spaces are improper. Why? This may seem
> ridiculously simple given the de facto ball of confusion: the semantics
> of tabs is what indenting is about, while, using spaces to align code
> is a hack.
> 

i agree, tabs is proper and i always use the tab key to indent... it puts in 4 
spaces.