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  1. Re:I think it's true... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on McVoy Strikes Back

    You're absolutely spot on here. Look at the aewm project (a good reference implementation of an ICCCM compliant window manager), and then look at how many derivatives it has:

    aewm++, alloywm, evilwm, maewm, Oroborus, phluid, Sapphire, swm, Clementine, WindowLab, YeahWM, Spook, wimpwm

    Some of these are genuinely innovative but how many of them would exist if their authors had had to reimplement everything from scratch?

  2. Re:I'm a heretic! Burn me! by mackstann · · Score: 3, Informative · on Blackbox (Finally) Updated
    It's easy to argue that something like Blackbox is small compared to Gnome or KDE, but if you compare it to other actual window managers, it's not really all that special. Metacity and E are the only WMs that I can think of off hand that might be called "big."

    A fun comparison I did

  3. Re:server? by mackstann · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube

    Cardboard beats tie-straps anyday! Yes, I built a computer in a cardboard box, in fact, it's serving you that image. Small, cool, quiet, cheap, and fun to build (for the type of person who was a lego nerd when they were a kid, I guess).

  4. Re:server? by mackstann · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube

    Cardboard beats tie-straps anyday! Yes, I built a computer in a cardboard box, in fact, it's serving you that image. Small, cool, quiet, cheap, and fun to build (for the type of person who was a lego nerd when they were a kid, I guess).

  5. Re:I'm unimpressed by mackstann · · Score: 2 · on An Overview of the Boa Web Server
    the CPAN of php would be PEAR (pear.php.net)

    one of the inconsistent functions you described is strstr(). most functions that search for something in a string (like ereg* and preg*) have the arguments set up so that the needle is first, haystack last. so you get used to using them like this('findthis', $inhere), but then with strstr you go strstr($whyisthisfirst, 'wtf that makes no sense')

    just my own little two cents, keep in mind i like php and i love doing all kinds of neat shit with it like this and these and this.

    i've played with perl a tiny bit, and while there are things i like about it (=~ comes to mind, also the general shortness of functions and constructs versus php's long_ass_function_names() like parent post mentioned), it does feel very strange - and i question the usefulness (to me). i can pretty much do anything in php that i can think of, the language doesnt hold me back very much or at all. i can write shell scripts in it too - of course people say "no no!! php is for webpages!!", but it's as fast as anything else, and i'm familiar with it so i can be very productive.

  6. Re:I'm unimpressed by mackstann · · Score: 2 · on An Overview of the Boa Web Server
    the CPAN of php would be PEAR (pear.php.net)

    one of the inconsistent functions you described is strstr(). most functions that search for something in a string (like ereg* and preg*) have the arguments set up so that the needle is first, haystack last. so you get used to using them like this('findthis', $inhere), but then with strstr you go strstr($whyisthisfirst, 'wtf that makes no sense')

    just my own little two cents, keep in mind i like php and i love doing all kinds of neat shit with it like this and these and this.

    i've played with perl a tiny bit, and while there are things i like about it (=~ comes to mind, also the general shortness of functions and constructs versus php's long_ass_function_names() like parent post mentioned), it does feel very strange - and i question the usefulness (to me). i can pretty much do anything in php that i can think of, the language doesnt hold me back very much or at all. i can write shell scripts in it too - of course people say "no no!! php is for webpages!!", but it's as fast as anything else, and i'm familiar with it so i can be very productive.

  7. Re:I'm unimpressed by mackstann · · Score: 2 · on An Overview of the Boa Web Server
    the CPAN of php would be PEAR (pear.php.net)

    one of the inconsistent functions you described is strstr(). most functions that search for something in a string (like ereg* and preg*) have the arguments set up so that the needle is first, haystack last. so you get used to using them like this('findthis', $inhere), but then with strstr you go strstr($whyisthisfirst, 'wtf that makes no sense')

    just my own little two cents, keep in mind i like php and i love doing all kinds of neat shit with it like this and these and this.

    i've played with perl a tiny bit, and while there are things i like about it (=~ comes to mind, also the general shortness of functions and constructs versus php's long_ass_function_names() like parent post mentioned), it does feel very strange - and i question the usefulness (to me). i can pretty much do anything in php that i can think of, the language doesnt hold me back very much or at all. i can write shell scripts in it too - of course people say "no no!! php is for webpages!!", but it's as fast as anything else, and i'm familiar with it so i can be very productive.