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Toxic waste sites were ubiquitous too, but we put in the effort to clean them up.
by jblow 7y ago
Toxic waste sites were ubiquitous too, but we put in the effort to clean them up.
- grayed-down 7y agoI'm game. What's your plan?
- DonHopkins 7y agoThis applies to bash as much as to X11 ICCCM: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398ebd47 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39... In summary, ICCCM is a technological disaster: a toxic waste dump of broken protocols, backward compatibility nightmares, complex nonsolutions to obsolete nonproblems, a twisted mass of scabs and scar tissue intended to cover up the moral and intellectual depravity of the industry’s standard naked emperor. Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes. - Jamie Zawinski X-Windows: …Even your dog won’t like it. X-Windows: …The first fully modular software disaster.