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by lukev 2499 days ago
All the tab advocates in this thread are like "Tabs are great, all you have to do is..."

That's why spaces are better. There's no "all you have to do." There's nothing. Just use spaces. Your code will look fine everywhere. Done.

Separation of content and presentation is a fine principle for many things, but as long as we're coding using text files, we are already far removed from that world. May as well stay simple and embrace the literal characters.

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> Your code will look fine everywhere.

...or nowhere, depending on who is reading.