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From: djc@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU (Dennis Colarelli)
To: alan@oldp.astro.wisc.edu (Alan Watson)
Cc: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: rc FAQ list
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1993 22:36:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9307250236.AA20501@niwot.scd.ucar.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9307250044.AA21203@oldp.astro.wisc.edu>; from "Alan Watson" at Jul 24, 93 8:44 pm

> Alan.
> 
> P.S. I had a look at the zsh FAQ whilst I was revising -- the features
> just blew my mind, but nothing prepared me for the final line of the
> acknowledgements.  Is it just me, or do these people really have their
> own version of reality?
> 

My experience on design is that:
   1. It's easy to make things complicated
   2. It's difficult to make things easy
Trying to be as objective as possible, I find zsh more like (1)
and rc like (2) (i.e., the design of rc requires less cognative
dissonance during application than zsh).  What's really wierd in
this analysis is how zealous people are about their favorite shell.

Dennis
rc uber allis


  parent reply	other threads:[~1993-07-25  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1993-07-25  0:44 Alan Watson
1993-07-25  1:16 ` Scott Schwartz
1993-07-26  9:33   ` Richard Brooksby
1993-07-26  9:58     ` Tim.Goodwin
1993-07-25  2:36 ` Dennis Colarelli [this message]
1993-07-25  3:06 Alan Watson
1993-09-04 18:46 Alan Watson

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