Re: [dev] Talk about sane web browsers

This discussion has become too silly even for the ministry of silly
mailing list discussions.

uriel

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/8 Uriel <lost.goblin_AT_gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Anselm R Garbe<garbeam_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So you judge about things you believe you have superior clue about,
>>> then go ahead and do us a favor and build a decent web browser that we
>>> can all be happy with.
>>
>> Blah, blah, blah, irrelevant nonsequitour.
>>
>>> As I said very often to you: talking and discrediting things is
>>> *simple*, but getting things done isn't.
>>
>> It might be 'simple', but still it has to be done, and nobody does it,
>> everyone is too busy kissing each others asshole, so I do it, and if
>> people get pissed and whinny at me for it, that is their problem.
>>
>> And you are the one here talking unjustified shit about Chrome when
>> comparing it to clearly inferior designs, not me, you lost the
>> technical argument, so now bring the stupid moralizing bullshit.
>
> You should read again what I wrote, I didn't compare Chrome to actual
> inferior designs, I compared it with a theoretical thin layer and the
> pattern I'm using is: less code -> less bugs, less code -> higher
> likelihood of better security, less code -> higher likelihood and
> better performance. Also note that this pattern is not an absolutism
> (as your judgements seem to be).
>
> If you disagree with this, let me know.
>
>> And if I wanted to rub salt into your wounds I could add that if it
>> was not for my judgement you would still be programming in C++, using
>> auto*hell, praising Object Oriented programming as the greatest
>> invention in the history of programming, and god only knows what else.
>
> That true, but it's also true that it was me that came up with dwm
> after a while when you where still insisting to keep wmii going and
> that a WM should have a 9P interface, editable tagbars and what not.
> To put some pepper into these wounds, let's have some charts:
>
> http://code.suckless.org/stats/dwm-sloc.png (now)
> http://code.suckless.org/stats/wmii-3.6-sloc.png (when I stopped with wmii)
> http://code.suckless.org/stats/wmii-sloc.png (now)
>
> SLOC of wmi-10 (for the record):
>
> SLOC    Directory       SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
> 12952   src_top_dir     cpp=12952
> 459     top_dir         sh=459
> 28      examples        sh=28
> 0       man             (none)
>
> Kind regards,
> Anselm
>
>
Received on Tue Sep 08 2009 - 16:26:53 UTC