Timeline for Was any indentation-sensitive language ever used with a teletype or punch cards?
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| Nov 28, 2022 at 7:36 | comment | added | cup | Many makefiles needed tabs instead of spaces. When read from punched cards, it would not be possible to input a tab: some utility would have to be used to convert spaces to tabs. | |
| Nov 27, 2022 at 17:21 | history | edited | Roel Schroeven | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Slightly better wording |
| Nov 27, 2022 at 16:15 | comment | added | dave | Teletypes yes, punched cards unlikely (which is not to say 'never', just that they were not usual 'make' input) | |
| S Nov 27, 2022 at 15:15 | review | First answers | |||
| Nov 28, 2022 at 2:42 | |||||
| S Nov 27, 2022 at 15:15 | history | answered | Roel Schroeven | CC BY-SA 4.0 |