Re: [RFC wayland] move away from C

2017-04-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 09:41:51 -0500 Derek Foreman said: > On 01/04/17 09:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij said: > > > >> The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was > >> always considered a proof of concept, as i

Re: [RFC wayland] move away from C

2017-04-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 09:41:51 -0500 Derek Foreman said: > On 01/04/17 09:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij said: > > > >> The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was > >> always considered a proof of concept, as i

Re: [RFC wayland] move away from C

2017-04-01 Thread Derek Foreman
On 01/04/17 09:24 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij said: The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was always considered a proof of concept, as it was clear to everyone involved that any serious programming lanugage s

Re: [RFC wayland] move away from C

2017-04-01 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 14:03:21 +0100 Auke Booij said: > The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was > always considered a proof of concept, as it was clear to everyone > involved that any serious programming lanugage should have a garbage > collector. Indeed, Dennis Ritchie is

[RFC wayland] move away from C

2017-04-01 Thread Auke Booij
The C programming language was developed in the early '70s. It was always considered a proof of concept, as it was clear to everyone involved that any serious programming lanugage should have a garbage collector. Indeed, Dennis Ritchie is widely known to have said: "What I would really like is to