23 Aug
2001
23 Aug
'01
11:31 a.m.
Alexis Lee alexis@turton.com writes:
I still don't understand why non-hackers like E so much. Surely the
Wash your mouth out.
Now let's see: spend CPU on making pretty pictures or spend CPU on doing useful stuff... I know which I choose. E is bad for the environment, using all that extra electricity on machines that would otherwise have idle time. ;-)
But the point is that nothing is perfect for everyone (arguably anyone). So the best one can do is to supply a good design, then give people the tools to turn it into their private utopia.
What E itself does is provide essentially no interface design, though. It's not even a good starting point.
People still have the tools anyway...