On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 09:41:51 -0500 Derek Foreman <[email protected]> said:
> On 01/04/17 09:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij <[email protected]> said: > > > >> The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was > >> always considered a proof of concept, as it was clear to everyone > >> involved that any serious programming lanugage should have a garbage > >> collector. Indeed, Dennis Ritchie is widely known to have said: > >> > >> "What I would really like is to extend this prototype into a garbage > >> collected, multi-paradigm, modern programming language, supported by a > >> major player in the industry." > >> > >> Of course, the language thus envisioned would later be implemented as > >> C pound (not to be confused with the cloud programming language #C). > >> > >> Let's catch up to 1990 and translate major parts of wayland to the > >> language of the people - haskell. > > > > ummm... how about no? > > Don't read the internets on April 1st. good point. i totally didnt know what date it was... :) > Thanks, > Derek > > > > >> Some early code can be found here: > >> https://github.com/abooij/sudbury > >> Existing wayland clients run without recompilation. Compositors are > >> not supported yet. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> wayland-devel mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > wayland-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
