RE: [GD-General] Eiffel

[Philip H. <ph...@me...>]

> > That's a great list of problems with Windows but the 
> majority if not 
> > all of them only apply to 99.99% of users.
> 
> I'm fairly sure that's not what you meant.

:-) Well, at least someone's sure.

> Small trivial example, which is rather outside of my GUI 
> preferences (eg no icons).  My typical idle state has ~20 
> windows on my desktop. When actively working that tends to 
> rise quickly to 50+ with values close to 100 not being 
> unseen.  This is a side effect of a way of working that I 

I can see why that would cause problems under windows although I would
guess that your multiple Emacs frames would be one window with a lot of
children on Windows. It's interesting (at least to me) that you find
that sort of environment so efficient. I tend to work the opposite way,
the less windows, files and apps open at any one time the quicker things
move along. Perhaps it's Windows imposing its will on me...

> Hehn.  Not a question of stopping, but a question of 
> difficulty versus reward for the sorts of problems I consider 
> interesting for me to solve.  Within that space Windows 
> doesn't win, and most specifically, seems to enforce 
> unacceptable contortions without delivering any increased 
> productivity, value, insight, effectiveness, or anything else 
> of value (to me) for the trouble.

Obviously your approach works very well for you. Do you know of other
people who work the same way? Is it an apporach you've been using a long
time or it still evolving? Note, I'm not suggesting that Windows is the
magic efficiency bullet, or that you should even consider using it. I'm
just interested because that sort of approach doesn't seem efficient to
me at all. 
 
Phil