Re: [9fans] how people learn things (was architectures)

["Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>]

> > oh good, let's add that option to all programs that read files.
> 
> No Boyd, I wouldn't recommend doing that.  Sounds like you need to read
> Kernighan and Plauger's _Software Tools_ where they discuss sort's -u
> option.

err, that was _sarcasm_.

oh, software tools?  read that -- some twenty years ago.

did you _read_ the rest of what i wrote?

> > > This has the advantage that you remain at the bottom of page 5
> > > rather than a new window opening on page 1.

> This is "more efficient".  In this case for the user as well as the
> machine.

really?  and gv doesn't re-read the whole postscript file?  where's
the efficiency gain?  that it stay's on page n?  you could have an
option that specifies a target page that you're interested in,
avoiding some wasted graphics computation.

windows are cheap.  well, they _are_ on any reasonable window system.
the same goes for processes.  but gv primarily runs on X on unix,
right?  so both are expensive.

> adieu

eh?  nobody says that.  'adieu' is pretty final.  think about its
literal meaning.