[Gllug] Window managers

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri Mar 31 23:02:15 UTC 2006


On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Tethys moaned:
> 
> Nix writes:
> 
>>I just wish someone with more spare time than me would implement a
>>lisp-config plugin, so we can mostly forget about the rebarbative fvwm
>>config language. :)
> 
> I'll grant you "different from other apps", but rebarbative? I personally
> find it intuitive and easy to use, and I can't imagine that switching to
> another config language would help much, if at all.

It's not that bad as non-Turing-complete declarative syntaxes go, but I
just have a violent antipathy to intentionally-crippled `scripting
languages'. (And no, I don't count Tcl as crippled in this way; it's
weird but not restricted.)

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