I always use tabs with a tab width of 4. What I would be interested in knowing is, why is there even an option to use spaces instead of the tab character? Doesn't tab deserve the right to exist by itself? Who introduced this idea of converting all your tabs into spaces and why?

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I'm posting this in this forum cause I want to do this in .NET. What I want to do is install a software-based microphone (or other voice input device), to which I can redirect voice coming from an actual hardware-based mic after performing some transforms on the voice input. This way I can make voice-enabled applications (like gTalk) listen on the software mic for voice input. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Is there any other way to achieve this? Basically what I'm trying to do is create an application that encrypts/decrypts all voice communication b/w two computers.

Why is it that I can't do this:

String yo;

ref class A
{
...
};

int main()
{
A objA;

return 0;
}

I thought we were not supposed to be able to use ref classes that way...only through tracking handles and tracking references. The above code compiles and runs. Could someone please explain it to me?