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Gosling: If I Designed a Window System Today...

Posted by michael on from the hindsight-is-20-20 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In his blog entry for the 10th August, James Gosling (finally) publishes a short paper he wrote in 2002 entitled 'Window System Design: If I had to do it over again in 2002'. His design is to make the window system do the absolute minimum and move all the work into the client."

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  1. If I were to design a window system today by shfted! · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'd make it opaque to keep my arch nemisis, the Evil Yellow Face from entering my underground command center... though my mom alredy complains the basement is too dark.

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    1. Re:If I were to design a window system today by sporktoast · · Score: 4, Funny

      For a minute there, I thought you were talking about a different Evil Yellow Face.

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  2. Wait... by StevenHenderson · · Score: 4, Funny

    His design is to make the window system do the absolute minimum and move all the work into the client.

    Wait, so you mean you wouldn't require this?
    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/04/222 3237&tid=201&tid=137

  3. Re:Good idea by TykeClone · · Score: 5, Funny
    Further, more money could be saved by making the clients with simple monochrome monitors (say green in color) with VT100 keyboards.

    Sounds like it's back to the future.

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  4. Re:Don't remember who it was... by kvigor · · Score: 4, Funny


    <objection tone="disgusted">
    <body>xml is too sodding verbose for any use ever anywhere. Satan himself recoils before its horror.
    </body>
    </objection>

  5. Yes, but... by Phekko · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...what do you think of a person who only does the bare minimum?

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