I'm surprised that all the replies to this thread are in favor of tabs
over spaces. In my experience, the vast majority of developers favor
spaces. For me there is one main reason I prefer spaces ... printers.
Sometimes I print code. Printers seem to always use eight spaces for
tabs which causes many lines to wrap and makes it harder to read the
code. If there were a universal way to adjust that then I'd be okay
with using tabs for indentation.

This is the same reason why I don't like when lines are longer than 80
characters. Many of the lines will wrap when printed. Also, I find it
harder to read code with long lines. That's why newspaper columns
don't extend all the way across wide newspaper pages.

-- 
R. Mark Volkmann
Object Computing, Inc.

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