From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: ams@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278953701 16552 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2010 16:55:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: levelhalom@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lennart Borgman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 12 18:54:58 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMHR-0000sL-TX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 18:54:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46366 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYMHR-0005N2-FR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49894 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OYMHM-0005Mv-Cg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMHL-0001ir-Da for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:52 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:55755) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMHL-0001in-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:51 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OYMHK-0004ap-MW; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:54:50 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lennart Borgman on Sun, 11 Jul 2010 13:10:40 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127107 Archived-At: > What words you use won't hinder that.  You will always encounter > new definitions for words, if one goes about renaming everything > to what is currently popular it will only cause mass confusion. The words matter since it raises complexity to use unfamiliar words. Recently I've started using Eclipse as part of my job, and it uses several words whos definition I'm not familiar with; for example view, perspective and workspace. I've used Eclipse daily now for four months, and the terminology still doesn't stick for me. Does this make Eclipse harder to use? Not at all. Does it make it more complex? Not really. They are just words, with some meaning.