On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 06:42:58PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: > On 7/31/08, pancake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah, eclipse is a very standard tool. Using ANT is far more better than > > using make. IMHO make is also a weird tool that should be replaced > > from ant manual: > 'Makefiles are inherently evil as well. Anybody who has worked on them > for any time has run into the dreaded tab problem. "Is my command not > executing because I have a space in front of my tab?!!" said the > original author of Ant way too many times.' > > i wouldn't trust my code to someone who cannot tell the difference > between spaces and tabs ;)
An explanation of Stuart Feldman, make's author, is great: Why the tab in column 1? Yacc was new, Lex was brand new. I hadn't tried either, so I figured this would be a good excuse to learn. After getting myself snarled up with my first stab at Lex, I just did something simple with the pattern newline-tab. It worked, it stayed. And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history. -- It's really funny when you consider how many people are complaining about this :)
