Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread hiro
HTML5 has not been invented to make parsing easier to us. Spare us with your hope.

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 02:58, Arian Kuschki wrote: > I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As > I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would > like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing > I like about Go is that is seems

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Hadrian Węgrzynowski
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:58:31 +0100 Arian Kuschki wrote: >Hi all, > >I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As >I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would >like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing >I like about Go

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
On 13 December 2011 08:43, hiro <23h...@googlemail.com> wrote: > HTML5 has not been invented to make parsing easier to us. Spare us > with your hope. True, but that doesn't mean certain elements of HTML5 aren't an improvement. I personally love , , , , , and , since if they are used it means I can

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : > C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, > then it will be the king. Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional programming. C has its benefits by being very very low-level, but if you're going to include

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 13 December 2011 12:27, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : >> C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, >> then it will be the king. > > Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional > programming. C has its benefits by b

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David Tweed
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Connor Lane Smith wrote: > Hey, > > 2011/12/13 Hadrian Węgrzynowski : >> C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, >> then it will be the king. > > Maybe I'm biased, but I think the future is all about functional > programming. C has i

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:34:50 -, Hadrian Węgrzynowski wrote: C is the king and Go is the prince. Go needs to be more stable/mature, then it will be the king. Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popula

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 13/12/11 Bjartur Thorlacius said: > Then what is D? I guess the answer will be the same as for Haskell. > > + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. > Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Python is my go-to language right now, but if I had to pick one lang

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Corey Thomasson
On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > > + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. > Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. > > Last time I looked at D it was more like C++ plus even more crap^H^H^H^Hfeatures.

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread David
Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last time I looked at D it was more like

Re: [dev] simplyread

2011-12-13 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
I don't know if this is something you should add into stock simplyread, but my suckless stylesheet columnates text to make it readable on wide screens without too much paging. I reckon Webkit is able to columnate text. I used a column-count dependent on viewport width, but Opera doesn't rem

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread pancake
On 12/13/11 14:54, David wrote: Am 13.12.2011 14:28, schrieb Corey Thomasson: On 13 December 2011 08:03, Bjartur Thorlacius > wrote: + D is the best of C and Python modulo compatibility and popularity. Unlike lisp, most any programmer can read it. Last ti

[dev] Re: what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Anthony Martin
Arian Kuschki once said: > I would like to learn a new programming language. I do not know C. As > I remember positive reactions on this list when Go came out, I would > like to know if people still think it might be a 'better C'. One thing > I like about Go is that is seems more suitable for serv

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Hills
> I've heared that functional programming will take over the world for > the last decade. When talking to some older geeks they've heared this > since the 70s. Now we are in the year 2012 nearly, and functional > programming is still niche. The problem, as I see it, is that you can't teach functio

Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

2011-12-13 Thread markus schnalke
[2011-12-13 08:12] "Michael P. Soulier" > > [...] but if I had to pick one language to > use for everything, it would be C. You better not pick any single language to use for everything. meillo

[dev] [dwm] auto switch to the app's tag

2011-12-13 Thread nxt7
Hello! Is it possible to make dwm to switch to the tag where application is started according to the "Rules" section of config file? viewontag patch works only with already started applications and does not suit for applications started through command line or file type associations from file mana