Re:An opinionated approach to GNU Make
by gumby on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @09:12PM
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> Or maybe we could go back in time and murder both hitler and the person who decided that tabs should be a separate character (which I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same person).
Tab released the spring holding the carriage in place and let it slide backwards until a tab on the base his a tab on the carriage that prevented it moving further on its own. High tech typewriters let you adjust the position of these tab stops (or "stop tabs", if you prefer). This back from the days when many typewriters omitted "1" and "0" -- we just typed l and O.
Tab on the oldest printing terminals simply had this behavior as they were essentially complicated typewriters anyway ("TTY" is "Tele TYpewriter")
Tab released the spring holding the carriage in place and let it slide backwards until a tab on the base his a tab on the carriage that prevented it moving further on its own. High tech typewriters let you adjust the position of these tab stops (or "stop tabs", if you prefer). This back from the days when many typewriters omitted "1" and "0" -- we just typed l and O.
Tab on the oldest printing terminals simply had this behavior as they were essentially complicated typewriters anyway ("TTY" is "Tele TYpewriter")
BTW your post does not invoke Godwin's law.