Right, and along those lines, I'll refuse to use Linux because Linus uses emacs and git while I prefer vim and hg...

Why not just appreciate that there's a somewhat high-level specification that's possibly machine verifiable, rather than having to rely on an English spec? Domain-specific languages are great, though they could have done better than choose XML for the syntax.

On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:03 AM, Uriel wrote:

Because using XML to generate C code is such a wonderful idea!

I propose we rewrite dwm and wmii in pure xml and then use XSLT to
generate C code that we can compile. That is what people call progress
in the software industry!

Erik Naggum[1] would  be proud!

uriel

[1] http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/s-exp_vs_XML

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Ammar James<lone.no...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just ran into this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCB

Any thougths on it being a suckless alternative to Xlib?





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