Alexander Viro wrote:
> > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just
> > about any language that has ORBit bindings.
>
> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
> UNIX.
Agree. I remember a big complaint about Windows was the huge APIs,
compared with Unix' tiny list of syscalls. And then I saw the GNOME
docs... ew!
> "KISS is tough" -- programmer Barbie.
;
-- Jamie
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