title: Is the TAB character bad in source code?
body: <p>I'm pretty familiar I guess with both Zend and PEAR PHP coding standards, and from my previous two employers no TAB characters were allowed in the code base, claiming it might be misinterpreted by the build script or something (something like that, I honestly can't remember the exact reason). We all set up our IDE's to explode TABs to 4 spaces. </p>
  
  <p>I'm very used to this, but now my newest employer insists on using TABs and not spaces for indentation. I suppose I shouldn't really care since I can just tell PHP Storm to just use the TAB char when i hit the <kbd>Tab</kbd> key, but, I do. I want spaces and I'd like a valid argument for why spaces are better than TABs.</p>
  
  <p>So, <strong>personal preferences aside</strong>, my question is, <strong>is there a legitimate reason to avoid using TABs in our code base</strong>? </p>
  
  <p>Keep in mind this coding standard applies to PHP and JavaScript.</p>