News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software. Parent comment

Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by SiempreViernes on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @09:43AM (#18978474)
I think the exact amount of spaces that should make up a tab is an even more controversial point.

I'd love to see what happens to the tabs vs spaces debate once someone makes tabs that aren't an integer multiple of spaces wide.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Julia Language Co-Creators Win James H. Wilkinson Prize f... by taeric on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @12:17PM (#18980202)
Tabstops are really old concept and were never really a set number of spaces wide. Used to, you had physical stops on the typewriter that a tab would advance to.

So, that world was and is a long time ago. We just don't typically give a way for people to set tabstops in most environments, therefore it was chosen that tabs would advance a certain number of spaces.

[ Parent | on HN ]