Quotes of the week

Posted Dec 15, 2011 6:12 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Quotes of the week by bojan
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Well one thing you can say about gnome, even if you don't like it, is that it is stable and well implemented

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 9:23 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link]

That's not something to be proud of, that's something you are supposed to do in the first place, i.e. it is a reason to be ashamed of if you don't do it.

Stable and well implemented? We already had it in WindowMaker 10 years ago, and in fvwm for even longer.

Heck, you could abend wmaker and it would restart without any major loss of state (and no data loss)... so even if you did manage to make it segfault, it would not cause you trouble.

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 11:18 UTC (Thu) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link] (4 responses)

Until they started implementing half of it in JavaScript!

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:21 UTC (Thu) by lkundrak (subscriber, #43452) [Link] (3 responses)

That's a great decision. The code is beautiful (compare to glib code in C) and javascript interprets are blazingly fast these days.

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 14:45 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (guest, #20463) [Link] (1 responses)

JavaScript, as explained on http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-an...

"1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript."

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 17:38 UTC (Thu) by alexl (guest, #19068) [Link]

Yeah, because clearly that page implies that gnome should keep using C:

1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.

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Posted Dec 15, 2011 15:19 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

If JavaScript is better than your other code, then you have a serious problem.

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Posted Dec 18, 2011 14:17 UTC (Sun) by ssam (guest, #46587) [Link]

actually gnome 3.2 has been quite unstable for me in fedora. especially if you add any extensions. I guess that will get better with time though. Luckily the MATE guys are maintaining gnome2 until gnome3 is ready.