Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, William Gordon Rutherdale <will.rutherdale@utoronto.ca> Subject: Re: Why?? (prog question) Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0904011125500.1164@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200904011335.n31DZT6D062212@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200904011335.n31DZT6D062212@lurza.secnetix.de>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-758783491-1238611213=:1164 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Oliver Fromme wrote: > Note: I've redirected this to -chat. This thread > does *not* belong on the -questions list. > > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > In all of those cases, I simply press the <Tab> key to > indent, and the <Backspace> key to dedent. There is no > need to change habits. The editor takes care of it. > I assume that every modern editor can be configured that > way. Since this is in chat, I guess I feel okay about making a fool of myself. Not everybody wants to deal with every week's new set of script kiddle gobbleygook. I hold a BSCS from the "late cretaceous" of 1989. After that I started studying molecular biology under the mistaken assumption that the blythering human race would stop idiotically barrelling into oblivion chopping off the icecaps at breakneck speed. Currently, having idioticaly tried to get back into computer science, I am enrolled in an MSCS at San Francisco State University. I keep crashing my kernels and keep getting insulted and rejected by the "online open source community" so I guess take what I have to say with a grain of salt. I learned the vi editor in 1985 and I am comfortable living on command lines without this "modern editor" nonsense. I have to say contemplating getting fired because some tyrant is going to bite my head off for failing to look at page 1234 of the documentation that clearly states that I MUST use a "modern editor" that will automate tabbing of my code makes me want to blow my head off right now and save the damn world the trouble. > Best regards > Oliver > > PS: Personally I think that the tab character (ASCII 9) > should die. It is a vestige of the IT middle ages, it has > no right to exist anymore today, and it only causes problems. > The very existence of this thread proves this point. I am now very confused. I thought I was arguing with this person, and now it appears we agree. Next, I'll be arguing with myself. > > --=20 > Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. > Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Gesch=E4ftsfuehrun= g: > secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht M=FC= n- > chen, HRB 125758, Gesch=E4ftsf=FChrer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Geb= hart > > FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd > > "... there are two ways of constructing a software design: One way > is to make it so simple that there are _obviously_ no deficiencies and > the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no _obvious_ > deficiencies." -- C.A.R. Hoare, ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1980 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------* ---559023410-758783491-1238611213=:1164--
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