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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."

4 of 431 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good idea by YouHaveSnail · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The scientific view of religion is not atheism. The scientific view is agnosticism and simplicity.

    And it's expressed as "On what factual grounds do you base these far-reaching assertions?"

  2. Re:If I were to design a window system today by geminidomino · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ahhh, I thought he meant Evil Otto

  3. Re:If I were to design a window system today by shfted! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who the fdisk modded that offtopic? I thought it was a highly relevant reply to my comment ;)

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  4. Re:If I were to design a window system today by shfted! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, he's right :)

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