> Except that X11 isn't doing something so right -- it's still terrible
Yet your windows render and take input, life goes on, etc. I am pretty happy with it on systems where it runs. Some of the old criticisms like it being a resource hog - might have made sense in the specs of, say, 1993 or earlier, but even restricting the comparison to what most of us have loaded in Javascript at any moment it's pretty lightweight.
> Have you ever read through a gnu configure file yourself ... Who in their right mind would ever write a shell script
I really don't think it's fair to use machine-generated code as an example of why you shouldn't use a particular language. All of those alleged universally available, "real" scripting languages that don't terribly suck would also look pretty bad if you turned them into a target language for GNU autotools.
Yet your windows render and take input, life goes on, etc. I am pretty happy with it on systems where it runs. Some of the old criticisms like it being a resource hog - might have made sense in the specs of, say, 1993 or earlier, but even restricting the comparison to what most of us have loaded in Javascript at any moment it's pretty lightweight.
> Have you ever read through a gnu configure file yourself ... Who in their right mind would ever write a shell script
I really don't think it's fair to use machine-generated code as an example of why you shouldn't use a particular language. All of those alleged universally available, "real" scripting languages that don't terribly suck would also look pretty bad if you turned them into a target language for GNU autotools.