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Subject: Re: [BBC] Programmers who use spaces 'paid more'
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JJ:

> Tab characters are annoying.  They messes the cur-
> sor's  column  position  when  it's  being   moved
> up/down and through the middle of the non existing
> space which was generated by the tab character.

There is a standard convention that  works  100%  of
the time:
                 Indent with tabs
                 Align with spaces

Such code will look good regardless of the tab width
used in the editor, so that each programmer may  set
up whatever tab width he prefers.

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