On Sun, February 4, 2007 7:05 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > What's the problem with COBOL requiring indentation? Or ForTran? Or > Makefiles? I've heard a LOT of complaining over the years about those > things; Ant was written, in part, because the developers liked XML and > hated the Makefile required indentation trick.
Makefile is especially egregious because it distinguishes between TABs and spaces. I've gotten burned by that before. ESR pointed that one out and I have to agree Makefiles are especially bad. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
