<story><title>Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us</title><url>http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SimHacker</author><text>In his &amp;#x27;90 Usenix presentation, Dennis Ritchie reminded the audience that
Steve Jobs stood at the same podium a few years back and announced that
X-windows was brain-dead and would soon die. &amp;quot;He was half-right.
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;-- Dennis Ritchie, coinventor of UNIX, from an article in UNIX Today&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anvari.org/fortune/Miscellaneous_Collections/133229_in-his-90-usenix-presentation-dennis-ritchie-reminded-the-audience-that-steve-jobs-stood-at-the-same-podium-a-few-years-back-and-announced-that-x-windows-was-brain-dead-and-would-soon-die.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anvari.org&amp;#x2F;fortune&amp;#x2F;Miscellaneous_Collections&amp;#x2F;1332...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Xplain: Explaining X11 for the rest of us</title><url>http://magcius.github.io/xplain/article/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>SimHacker</author><text>The more important question of whether or not systems like C++ and X-Windows cause actual permanent brain damage in humans, will have to wait for the autopsies of human brain doners.  That won&amp;#x27;t be soon, since they&amp;#x27;re still only in the animal experimentation stages.  But I think it&amp;#x27;s reprehensible how they&amp;#x27;re exposing all those poor innocent bunnies to shoddy static class libraries without garbage collection, and high doses of raw Motif.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/quotations.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cse.unsw.edu.au&amp;#x2F;~chak&amp;#x2F;quotations.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>