On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Chad Perrin <per...@apotheon.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:07:28PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Glen Barber <glen.j.bar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad,
>> >>> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and
>> >>> vim-like (among other things ;-).
>> >>
>> >> Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotwm
>> >> developer(s)?  Earlier today, I read this on the site:
>> >>
>> >>     "On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and
>> >>     xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C."
>> >>
>>
>> hahahahahahaha!
>>
>> >> What's up with that?  How does Haskell "cripple" xmonad?
>> >>
>>
>> In the end, you need not take yourself so seriously.  The thread was
>> generic enough to allow for some rhetorical flourish. I suggested
>> something . . . pointed out that is written in C (as did the homepage)
>> . . .  AND you concluded some sort of insult; not my problem.
>>
>> Do you need a rim-shot for every joke?
>
> 1. Who said I took insult?  You assume too much.
>
> 2. That was not a very clever joke, anyway.  Where's the punchline?
>
> 3. That doesn't answer my question about the Scrotwm page.
>
> Even *I* am not so socially stunted as to think a comment like that on
> the Scrotwm site would not raise some eyebrows.
>

Some? sure.

In the end, scrotwm is a simple wm that allows the
"gui-apprehensive-type" folk a nice CLI in X. That's all I was
suggesting.

"Shave and a haircut" . . . Chad?
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