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From: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: readline bashing (was POSIX bashing)
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.021359.13277@mtxinu.COM>
Date: 9 Apr 91 02:13:59 GMT
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Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.COM (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>However, having gotten used to spiffy user interfaces I'm no longer
>sure I could be productive if forced to revert to old methods.
>One's personal standards change based on experience.

Personal standards certainly do change.  I don't think I want to
go back to using a one-window tube (although, that's what I am
using just now) for real work, either.  I'd rather, though, have an
efficient and productive interface than one that eats more of the
machine than it really needs.

>>... most of the things that take more than that do so because they're
>>bloated with excess goo, badly coded, or - most likely - both.

>Don't forget another possibility, which is lack of integration in their
>design.

Agreed.  Good integration - especially on the conceptual level -
has many benefits.  Among others, it's the best way I know of to
avoid the excess goo.

-- 
Ed Gould			No longer formally affiliated with,
ed@mtxinu.COM			and certainly not speaking for, mt Xinu.

"I'll fight them as a woman, not a lady.  I'll fight them as an engineer."