Re: [wmii] Re: quick thanks... for wmii

On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:56:51PM +0100, Uriel wrote:
> I say wmii is shit, because even if I will be ashamed of it all my
> life(and good part of my afterlife), wmii is for the most part my
> brainchild. And if you think wmii is great, then you got no fucking
> clue about what decent software is.
>
> The sad thing is that compared with all the crap that floods the
> (l)unix world this days, wmii is better than most other software, but
> that only tells you how bad (l)unix has become.
>
> To end all this pointless noise I suggest to all the ignorant fools
> that have no clue about software design, are ignorant of the unix
> history, and could not tell sane software from a gnu turd even if
> their life depended on it: to either start to get a clue and get over
> the fact that all the software they use is shit, or to fuck off and
> stop spamming.

I'm a lurker here mostly, and wmii user, but I have a simple personal request.

I hang out, and debate often with, a lot of academic computer-science types, as well as more practical-leaning software developer types. Usually, if I don't quite grok what they are saying off-hand, they can point me in the direction of an article, essay, book or two, that clears up confusion.

So, are there 1 or 2 (or 9 or 10, even) articles, essays, softwares (besides the more obvious Plan9, ed, etceteras dicussed here) that you can suggest as a reference, that, when taken together, pretty much sum up together to be what you would like to seen in software?

Thanks! I really am curious.
__armando