Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniele Futtorovic Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 18:19:35 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 16:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="Zjm1/7nnVMUmB9baN8E6xQ"; logging-data="10894"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18h8zT6VY7pC9mMbXk0G4ky" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:kCA5Z2XOaR4QUZj2iE4GmOg0x/k= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3697 On 06/05/2011 11:57, Zapotec allegedly wrote: > On 05/05/2011 8:35 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote: >> Gosh, you're such a twat. > > Whereas I recognize the technical and engineering reasons for requiring > the deeply nested long directory names, I also have to say I agree that > they can be a pain in the butt, on two counts: My invective wasn't so much aimed at the original claim (which is just as borderline reasonable as it needs to be to fulfil its trolling purpose), but rather with the ravenous endearment for ignorance the "argument" I quoted displays. > 1. Typing long directory names or click-click-clicking to deeply-nested > folders is a pain, and will be required if you aren't using an IDE > like NetBeans or Eclipse -- and if you are, you just have the > package/class hierarchy to click-click-click through to get to > particular source files, instead, though at least you'll usually be > working in one small area at a time, and when there are compiler > errors or stack traces you can usually click in an IDE to jump > directly from the message to a suspect line in a source file. > > Of course, the one-public-class-per-file thing (which has the same > engineering reasons) then becomes annoying when it leads to a tab > explosion in your editor. :) I can assure you I never had any of the problems you speak of. Then again, I'm not developing on a Windows box. ;) -- DF. An escaped convict once said to me: "Alcatraz is the place to be"