Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Zapotec Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Death To Sub-Sub-Sub-Directories! Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 17:10:07 -0400 Organization: Azteca atlatl Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <34va98-dgm.ln1@dagon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: sq22xTww2sm6KI+ZPa+8iw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3716 On 06/05/2011 12:19 PM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote: > On 06/05/2011 11:57, Zapotec allegedly wrote: >> 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. ;) Non sequitur. It was my point 2 that was Windows-specific; the point you actually quoted is cross-platform, much like Java itself. :)