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   Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 00:56:35 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

   #UNIX failed because Berkley spent all their time arguing about indentation styles. In #Lisp, we don't bother.

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     Karsten Johansson (ksaj@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 14:15:00 JST Karsten Johansson

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     @amszmidt I remember a huge battle over "tabs or spaces" back in the 90's. There sure was a lot of code out there that had a messed up mix of indent characters and styles from using multiple editors before completing the code.