On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 09:17:35AM -0400, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On 10/19/2013 06:48 AM, Tim Munro wrote:
> 
> > I've gotten in trouble using spaces in Makefiles where tabs were
> > absolutely required.  The files look like they should work, but they
> > do not.
> 
> Make is evil that way too.
> 
> Actually, the real evil is whoever didn't set a fixed meaning to 0x09
> when making up the standard in the first place.
[...]

When it was implemented, there *was* no standard. It wasn't made up as a
standard. It was simply implemented in some arbitrary way, and later
retroactively made into a "standard".


T

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