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>>> Congratulations! You've learned 90% of what you need to know about

The next 90% will be to learn that Make breaks when having tabs and spaces in the same file, and your developers all use slightly different editors that will mix them up all the time.



Most editors that I've used switch to tabs mode when opening Makefile* files. But yes, it's a weird restriction. I suppose it's a result of being one of the first languages with syntactical indentation.




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