Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Make 3.82 Dev86src triple bug fixes patch
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 07:03 -0500, Michael Shell wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond even once wrote in one of his books that he
> wished the original author of make had never relied on tabs in the
> first place.

He, and every other developer who's ever worked with Makefiles. It was a
very unfortunate decision, that one... a cause of countless hours lost
to tracking down errors that can't even be seen by the eye...

Simon.
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