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




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