From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 24 01:01:32 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6721065670 for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:01:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f175.google.com (mail-qy0-f175.google.com [209.85.216.175]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228D38FC0C for ; Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:01:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk31 with SMTP id 31so554745qyk.13 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:01:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Oeho+pMbM0G2tJMhcmR8ch7hHIyOM4bK6uBc1M+eQkk=; b=Xqo3d5i0eCQT3Mw3t/i2kz7ELFVSxDtkx3am+vghj0pdKq0e3nB54Ap6aBDHf4PdcC +R1HBtLGwLWq4pgYS13ZuyBhh1zadzp2KiMxhOMnfwK9WNjV2oQwt3rsici9IXIVhgcV 5bXNBgtSoS8IIP6o9SCzXQcAwTWLn9wvcNYiE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SC6efx//MSSIhIrsUC6WT92GqbogY6VUcNSA4n7QPkWYtOMKCGh9vl2joa8y3bzfg8 RY3Gi1m/Y7NomaEdqo3I4707NyEwiZgV8fof5qFCrtKZbSURp+c0Fw8tS+eUxL7PNkJW +twyMqzM+N1jjEDHSxDLfkZ1eTPhHLXIkGX00= Received: by 10.224.59.91 with SMTP id k27mr1893978qah.177.1285290091337; Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (c-71-230-240-241.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [71.230.240.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r38sm1641518qcs.38.2010.09.23.18.01.29 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C9BF868.9000805@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:01:28 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3368057398-783131724@intranet.com.mx> <20100923152023.GA14903@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100924003120.GA19235@guilt.hydra> In-Reply-To: <20100924003120.GA19235@guilt.hydra> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: GUI Suggested? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 01:01:32 -0000 On 9/23/10 8:31 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:24:58PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> If you like xmonad, check out scrotwm. It's inspired by xmonad, >> lightweight, written in C by oBSD dev, actively maintained, and >> vim-like (among other things ;-). > > Why is "written in C" considered such a great benefit by the Scrotwm > developer(s)? Earlier today, I read this on the site: > > "On the other hand xmonad has great defaults, key bindings and > xinerama support but is crippled by not being written in C." > > What's up with that? How does Haskell "cripple" xmonad? > My interpretation is that if you will be compiling software for a UNIX-like system, you will probably have some variant of a C compiler already available. Read as "just build it and go" versus "just build its dependencies, then build it and go." Cheers, -- Glen Barber