[NCLUG] Looking at programming languages...

David Braley davbraley at comcast.net
Fri Jan 18 20:15:00 MST 2008



Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:54:40AM -0700, David Braley wrote:
>   
>>> <rant>
>>> TABS ARE 8 SPACES.
>>>
>>> REPEAT AFTER ME:
>>>
>>> TABS ARE 8 SPACES.
>>> </rant>
>>>  
>>>       
>> I personally prefer tabs to be 5 1/2 spaces. I once used 6 1/4, but that 
>> looked funny.
>>     
>
> I think the confusion has something to do with the fact that people think
> paragraph indentation is supposed to be a TAB character.  It's not.  It's
> just a sentence comprised of a single word that starts with an f, ends
> with a d, and has nor in the middle.  When you put these letters
> together, of course, it produces a word that most human beings' minds
> will not allow them to recognize as present, having been trained since
> birth to fail to recognize this word.  It's all part of the Illuminati
> conspiracy.
>
> Of course, another component of the confusion has to do with spaces
> between sentences.  There are technically one point five spaces between
> sentences when they are spaced properly.  In the age of typewriters,
> however, that was replaced by the common two-space practice, and that's
> still the easy way to do it with computers (generally speaking).  What
> this ends up looking like to the common person reading properly indented
> paragraphs is eight spaces before the first visible word -- five for the
> word in the actual first sentence, one for the ending punctuation mark of
> the sentence, and two to separate that sentence from the first visible
> sentence.
>
>   5 + 1 + 2 = 8
>
> I hope this brief overview of the truth of proper indentation of
> paragraphs has enlightened you.
>   

LOL!!! Finally! Someone else with a sense of humor.

Dude, you ROCK!

David



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