Quoth Neal Hogan on Thursday, 23 September 2010: > 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?
I don't think anyone was attacking you or your suggestion, Neal. I like what I see in scrotwm: copyfree license, lean approach, keyboard-centricity, minimalism. All good. It just doesn't have anything to pull me away from xmonad yet. Hope they keep up the good work. Regards, Chip -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com
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