Steve Yegge on tabbed UI, 2008

[Drew Adams]

"Tabs don't scale.  Tabbed browsing was revolutionary in the same way adding 
more tellers to a bank was revolutionary: it's, like, 4x better. w00t.

Emacs offers the unique ability to manage its open buffers in another 
first-class buffer, as a list. 

Imagine what your filesystem life would be like if the only view of a directory 
was one tab per file.  Go to your pictures directory and watch it start 
vomiting tabs out like it tried to swallow a box of chiclets. Fun!"

https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/04/xemacs-is-dead-long-live-xemacs.html
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(But yeah, it doesn't _hurt_ that Emacs can
_also_ use tabs.)