On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Kent Tenney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Right, and Tim's point was that Unix thrived in great part because man > pages provided a standard tool to address exploding capability and complexity. > > The iPhone parallel doesn't become valid until the gui era. But we are in the gui era now, and my experience is that the need for complex docs is a sign of design defects. The contrary point of view isn't entirely invalid: consider the rst command. It's powerful because of all the options. Still, I myself have trouble remembering them all. The contrary-contrary point of view contrasts rST with LaTeX. Of course rST is simpler, of course LaTeX is much more flexible. But that's not the end of the story. My impression is that millenia have been wasted worrying about stuff that doesn't matter. So yes, there is a tension. However, I find it difficult to believe that *nix is a model for any kind of good design :-) Anyway, emacs, vim, eclipse and maybe one or two others are what I think of as my design world. Finally, thanks for your good-humored comments. I always enjoy them. Edward -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
