Editing EasyVsPowerful
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Some people think a program should be easy to learn, others think a program should be powerful, even if that makes it initially hard to learn (because it will save you time after you've learned it). An early proponent of the latter strategy was [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DougEngelbart Doug Englebart] of SRI (the same person who invented the computer mouse). His "NLS" system was hard to learn, but ''very'' powerful once you'd learned it. This strategy is sometimes called [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SharpenTheSaw Sharpening the Saw]. Advocates of [[VI]] and [[Emacs]] are on Englebart's side, authors of GUI editors are often on the opposing side. Even [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKay Alan Kay], who helped invent the windows-icons-mice paradigm at [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?XeroxParc Xerox PARC], admits that Englebart had a point. See EditorPower, TinyEditors
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