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Formatting code should be unnecessary

and we knew this back in the 80s

Fun Fact: The R1000 is fairly undocumented and very rare, but it was used in the writing of software for the ISS, the F-22, presumably countless other government projects, and led to the birth of UML by Grady Booch. Spaces vs. tabs didn't matter because neither affects the semantics and the editor on the system let you modify the program tree directly (known today as projectional editing). Using DIANA with hardware acceleration made it possible to do incremental compilation (unheard of at the time, for strongly typed languages), easy refactoring (though that word had not yet been invented), and incredibly fast integration (essential for the large systems that we being built with Ada).

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