Re: rough first impressions

[Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday, April 14, 2003, at 10:11 PM, Neel Krishnaswami wrote:

> I purchased a monitor that could display 1600 x 1200 so I could put
> two 80-column Emacs frames side by side at a comfortable font size.

And the reason you can't put two buffers one over the other is?

> I want to use high-resolution monitors to keep track of more
> information, not the same amount of information badly formatted. :)

Seems like you haven't really fully explored the possibilities of 
formatting.

Again, it's really short sighted to design a program, much less a 
programming language to have cryptically unreadable frequently used 
identifiers just because some programmers don't want to rearrange 
windows on a monitor.

Having recently read Paul Graham's essay on the Hundred Year Language, 
I can't help thinking that in 100 years, no one will be foolish enough 
to use a language with a half dozen different two letter keywords all 
beginning with 'd'.

A good rule of thumb in this industry is to design for increasing 
capacity of resources, including screen real estate, not the 80 column 
glass ttys of a quarter century ago.

Raffael Cavallaro, Ph.D.
raffaelcavallaro@mac.com