I hate you all

[Chris Angelico]

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 2:01 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> In article <mailman.200.1365258042.3114.python-list at python.org>,
>  Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 12:52 AM, Nobody <nobody at nowhere.com> wrote:
>> > Historically, software and hardware which assigns a meaning to a tab
>> > character has come in two flavours:
>> >
>> > 1. Tab stops are every 8 columns; this cannot be changed.
>> > 2. Tab stops are configurable, defaulting to every 8 columns.
>>
>> 3. Tab stops are measured in something other than characters.
>>
>> With variable-width fonts, it's illogical to set tab stops in
>> characters. DeScribe Word Processor defined them in centimeters, way
>> back in the early... well, I didn't meet it till the 90s, but I don't
>> know how long it had been around before that.
>
> What makes sense for a word processor and what makes sense for a
> programming language are two very different things.

Yes. I was just completing the set, since the heading didn't specify
*for programming languages*.

ChrisA