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On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 07:28:25 +0100, Simon Wright wrote:

> I've just opened GPS, and it's running at 117 Mb (the X11 server I
> wouldn't be running otherwise is at 27 Mb).
> 
> Emacs (open for days, including this newsreader) is at 104 Mb.

Proper IDEs also existed in earlier days. E.g. LSE (under VMS) required far
less than 1Mb, had context sensitive stuff, was fully programmable etc. 

---------------
The division is between command-line interfaces (cryptic commands + key
accelerators for those) and visual interfaces (meant to be "intuitive").

Those who enjoy memorizing commands possibly have no problem to memorize 1K
mappings Ada unit <-> file name.

We must be proud of these courageous people wasting so much efforts, while
still being able to accomplish some useful work too! (:-))

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de