On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:41:44 -0700 Hilco Wijbenga <hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/6/21 明覺 <shi.min...@gmail.com>: > > I want to keep the programs in my system all written in c/c++, no > > python or perl or any other programming languages, is it possible to > > reach it? I removed the 2 packages, python and perl, from my system, > > and of cause, I losed my desktop, is it possible to install a desktop > > manager without perl and python? which is the proper desktop manager? By the way, there are a few window managers that don't depends on perl/python, I double that there are any desktop managers. None of them will run without Xorg. It's core is mostly c/c++ by the way, the others are probably mostly for handling setup files and such. > > (This is in response to various comments/answers you gave, not just > this initial email.) > > FYI: > perl: C program > python: C program > (ba)sh: C program > ruby: C program > sed: C program > awk: C program > the list continues... > > And have you thought about make, m4, gcc, autotools? They all have/are > their own "language" that you need to learn. gcc uses Lisp (or > something like it) internally, are you now no longer going to use a > compiler? No more make because it requires you to learn its language? > How are you going to build your code? > > What about XML, YAML, HTML, javascript, and such? No more browser? No > more internet? :-) That would really free up my day, I think I'll take your offer > > On a different note, have you realised just how much you need to know > before you "know" your whole system? Just the Linux kernel is (2.6.29) > is 11 million SLOC. Debian 4.0 was a whopping 283 million SLOC. To > quote some more from > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_lines_of_code: > > "A similar study was later made of Debian Linux version 2.2 (also > known as "Potato"); this version of Linux was originally released in > August 2000. This study found that Debian Linux 2.2 included over 55 > million SLOC, and if developed in a conventional proprietary way would > have required 14,005 person-years and cost $1.9 billion USD to > develop." > Just wondering where that last 5 came from? ;-) possibly that's for arguing with people why you languages other than c/c++ ... > Are you going to live that long? Do you have that much money? (If yes > to the latter, could you please send a few million my way?) ;-) I would like to say to both but I would settle for the first for now, the second I'll take care of in a few thousand years > > Please think this through and listen to reason before you waste your life. > > Cheers, > Hilco > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org