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Tale of design mistake lock in?

My fuzzy recollection is Feldman wrote something describing how he quickly (weeks?) concluded that using significant tabs had been a mistake. But how at that point, he had too many users, order 10?, to change it. Now, order 10_000+ users later... It's a cautionary tale for any protocol designer. And I'd really love to find a reference. 66.30.119.55 19:42, 6 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This seems to have been a common rationale at Bell Labs. I had a discussion some years back with Dennis Ritchie about a detail of the C programming language, and he said that he agreed it was a mistake but by the time they realized it there were more than three sites running C so they decided not to change it. -- Resuna (talk) 21:03, 7 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Cross-posted on Talk:Make and Talk:Stuart Feldman.

One reference is Eric S. Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming, which appears in print and in freely downloadable form. JöG 20:16, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note: a pic of Feldman can be found at: [[1]] Also note that he is responsible for one of the greatest travesties in the history of programming languages significant whitespace (TAB on the beggining of a line) Incredibly, this mistake has been repeated in several modern languages, including Python and Ruby —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.82.184.3 (talk) 22:33, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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