From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 10:10:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9k36ae$138k$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B654276.4040707@bigfoot.de> <3B655CE8.F8FAD2CF@sneakemail.com> <87elqxxyzb.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3B66D9F8.BA21BC1B@san.rr.com> <3B66E299.FA942B24@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 996599443 13067 129.241.83.82 (31 Jul 2001 17:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:10:43 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10882 Date: 2001-07-31T17:10:43+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:53:43 GMT, Darren New wrote: > FWIW, Python's approach is to forbid mixing of tabs and spaces in the > same indent block. I.e., you can use some number of tabs per indent, or > some number of spaces per indent, but not both. ITabs vs spaces is > actually a pretty rare complaint, judging from the python newsgroup. Sounds like a recipe for a big mess if the source code is edited by several individuals with different editors. Say one use emacs and another vim. The first uses tabs and the latter have turned on the option to turn tabs into spaces for instance... Preben -- �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/