Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-19 Thread Pinocchio
On Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:18:50 -0700, Jessta wrote: On 19/09/2009, Pinocchio wrote: Take a look at "traits", a somewhat new programming language construct recently introduced in Scala. http://scg.unibe.ch/research/traits Its pretty orthogonal to OO and seems to be a good alte

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
the new problems they create as aptly pointed out by parent)? Cheers, -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
time and experience with the construct would tell how much of an improvement it really is. -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-18 Thread Pinocchio
e enjoyable because that interface is a well established standard and doesn't evolve as most other software. Think about all the changes you might have to make in Unix tools once you change something subtle (blocking / signaling semantics) in the stdin/stdout "interface". -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev][surf] Next schedule?

2009-09-17 Thread Pinocchio
client windows? -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev][surf] Next schedule?

2009-09-17 Thread Pinocchio
be interesting to generalize this (automatically, of course) to a wm. -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Conversation with Anselm R. Garbe of suckless.org

2009-09-17 Thread Pinocchio
academia focuses on typing constructs when at the same time the industry seems to be favoring scripting languages and "duck" typing for productivity. What do you think? -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-11 Thread Pinocchio
... there are quite a few to choose from. It would be really nice if we could make it scripting language independent. People should have a choice to use Lua, Neko, Io or whatever they like to build a "webapp" and access the core runtime (through IPC). -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-11 Thread Pinocchio
On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:54:30 -0700, frederic wrote: On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:06:20 +0200, Anselm R Garbe wrote: 2009/9/9 Pinocchio : I am saying this because even after a lot of marketing muscle and commercial force, it has been hard for Adobe, Sun and Microsoft to push their rendering

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-08 Thread Pinocchio
and pretty expressive as a language. There is also io (iolanguage.com) which I found to be small and expressive. It would be nice if there was a neat way of making it frontend independent. I was thinking about it more from a secure code execution + graphics runtime perspective. -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-08 Thread Pinocchio
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:08:23 -0700, Uriel wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Pinocchio wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:26:05 -0700, frederic wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:51:46 +0200, Uriel wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Pinocchio wrote: A few months ago lobobrowser.org

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-07 Thread Pinocchio
On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:26:05 -0700, frederic wrote: On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:51:46 +0200, Uriel wrote: On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Pinocchio wrote: A few months ago lobobrowser.org caught my eye. Its a browser written in java (hold on... don't kick me off the list... :) ) but the th

Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

2009-09-06 Thread Pinocchio
uld try and write something simpler and just write tools to directly render it for suckless browsers or convert it to HTML + Javascript for non-suckless mortals :) -- Pinocchio

Re: [dev] Suckless (*NIX|*BSD) Distribution?

2009-06-21 Thread Pinocchio
e, I believe that giving applications more control rather than relying on distributions to package things well would be a good first step towards a suckless (less bloat, works out of the box) workstation / server setup regards, pinocchio