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Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
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I will fight tooth and nail with anyone who agrees with this decision. Not because Torvalds did it, but because fuck you use tabs you goddamn neanderthals
Notice Linus doesn't use tabs; he just thinks the parser shouldn't die when it sees them.
Yeah and that makes sense. But I still choose to die on the hill of tabs or nothing. That's just how anal I am about my code.
And I realize there are niche scenarios where tabs don't make sense, but I could care less about those. Afaik, even assemblers support tabs. If you have tabs, I feel it is almost sacrilegious not to use them for indentation.
This isn't about using one or the other, it's about not exploding when you encounter a tab.
Your word choice reminds me of Linus before he went into this kind of rehab thing.
Yeah I liked him better then /s