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Discussion on: What is your pettiest programming-related opinion?

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Andrew Brown πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

The creator of Python said if he had to go back in time he would have made 2 space mandatory to stop this space vs tabs wars.

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Ben Halpern

lol

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Michiel Hendriks • Edited

Guido van Rossum prefers tabs [1].

I think putting any kind of semantics in things you cannot print is a big mistake. This includes newlines like used in JavaScript.