Homebrew PCBs

>> <Snip lots about UIs from many parties>

> Leon wrote:
>
> They bought Eagle where I used to work, I'd used
> my own copy of Pulsonix until then. I tried to
> use it for a design but found that it was taking
> me far longer than the same job would take with
> Pulsonix, and the additional keystrokes and mouse
> clicks were giving me RSI. It also had a nasty
> bug. I refused to use it and had a big row with
> management - they backed down and let me use
> Pulsonix.

Now - A "NASTY BUG" would be something far more
intersting to know about than "it has funny keys"

> Another engineer there was very familiar with
> Eagle, they bought it on his recommendation and
> because it was cheap. He once spent two weeks
> doing a PCB that I could have done in under a
> day with Pulsonix! 

Was the "he took a week with eagle" part due to
eagle or due to him ?  Would he have also taken
4.7 days if HE was using pulsonix ?

Weeks worth of productivity is worth $.  So if
there is a realy reason eagle is much slower I
would like to hear about it.

> His two weeks work would have paid for a
> Pulsonix seat. Another engineer there has always
> refused to use Eagle and uses an old copy of
> Proteus, which isn't much better but he likes it.