On Sunday 03 August 2003 14:07, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> Because, in any non-trivial piece of code, indents can end up being a
> mixture of tabs and spaces, rather than just tabs.  When this happens, and
> you use a different tab size to the author, the indented code suddenly
> becomes a tad unreadable.

historically all bash pieces of code have been taborized and if you look 
through the current tree, the vast majority are tabbed ...

the other reason i like tabs is we're looking at 1 byte vs 4 (or more) :)
-mike