On Jun 20, 5:21 pm, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Jun 20, 4:49 pm, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jun 20, 4:35 pm, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > I continue to suspect that there's an ulterior motive for making and > >> > > keeping certain software actively beginner-hostile; a certain macho > >> > > elitism also seen with light aircraft pilots and commented on at > >> > >www.asktog.com(exactURLescapes me; sorry). > > >> > You are babbling. > > >> No, I am not. You, however, are being gratuitously insulting. > > > I have that exact URL now -- > >http://www.asktog.com/columns/027InterfacesThatKill.html > > Utterly unrelated to Emacs.
I think it is quite relevant. Clunky computer interfaces may not be so dramatically dangerous, but they certainly can hamper productivity. Between Windows bugs and gratuitous misfeatures (e.g. DRM) and Unix clunkiness, billions of dollars of potential productivity is lost worldwide every *month*. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
