From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 1 19:08:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E06106566C for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) Received: from iron1.sfsu.edu (iron1.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E4F8FC27 for ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 19:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) X-Inbound-SFSU: False X-onepass: IPPSC X-From-SFSU: True X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAGdR00mC1Apk/2dsb2JhbADBYgEJBYcIiE2CSIEzBoUr Received: from smtp01.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.100]) by iron1.sfsu.edu with ESMTP; 01 Apr 2009 11:40:19 -0700 Received: from libra.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.238]) by mail05a.sfsu.edu (Lotus Domino Release 7.0.3FP1HF555) with ESMTP id 2009040111401439-847 ; Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:40:14 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 11:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: KAYVEN RIESE To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Polytropon , William Gordon Rutherdale In-Reply-To: <200904011335.n31DZT6D062212@lurza.secnetix.de> Message-ID: References: <200904011335.n31DZT6D062212@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on MAIL05a/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.3FP1HF555 | January 28, 2009) at 04/01/2009 11:40:16, Serialize by Router on SMTP01/SERVERS/SFSU(Release 7.0.3HF378 | February 28, 2008) at 04/01/2009 11:40:18, Serialize complete at 04/01/2009 11:40:18 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="-559023410-758783491-1238611213=:1164" Cc: Subject: Re: Why?? (prog question) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:08:44 -0000 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 wrote: > > William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: > In all of those cases, I simply press the key to > indent, and the 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--