>Anyone ever seen a case where lotsa little functions *wasn't* ideal and *very*
>nice?  8 space tabs/80 columns forces you to chop your problem into little bite
>sized functions!!! I love it!

Some languages penalize you for doing that.  Others embrace it.  FORTH is a
good match to this, and the original design took the "small and modular" to
an extreme by giving you one 16 line 64 column screen at a time.

And there are those that eschew the tab character entirely.

>You'd think KISS principle would make people embrace the Linux coding style....

Not everyone goes along with KISS, either.

Barry

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