On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
The default tabstop setting of 8 spaces per stop comes from the convention for writing DEC assembly language back in the 1970's. It is, of course, totally inappropriate for almost everything else, C and C++ programs in particular. Alas, it's embedded in all kinds of places -- and also migrated to DOS, where it shows up in the print program and can't be modified.
According to "Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline, studies have shown that 4 space tabs produce better "readable" code... Alvaro -- -- -- -- -- Alvaro A. Novo novo@uiuc.edu "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso -- -- -- -- --
Paul Abrahams
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