www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oFxhqYn-g0
Xcb is the "new" version of xlib around the 6th minute
--Original Message--
From: Uriel
To: dev mail list
ReplyTo: dev mail list
Subject: Re: [dev] XCB: An alternative to Xlib
Sent: Jun 23, 2009 10:03
DSLs are great, but that is no excuse to build sy
DSLs are great, but that is no excuse to build systems so insanely
broken and complex that you need to generate all of the code to
implement a protocol because it is too insanely complex to be done
properly.
The whole thing stinks way too much of CORBA/SOAP...
uriel
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 10:25
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 l
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/
