Except that X11 isn't doing something so right -- it's still terrible, and it always has been, and we knew it was terrible at the time it was standardized.
But it's funny that you would bring up something as terrible as a shell scripting language like bash to compare to how terrible X-Windows is. Have you ever read through a gnu configure file yourself, or do you just close your eyes and type "./configure"? Who in their right mind would ever write a shell script, when there are so many real scripting languages that don't terribly suck universally available, that don't shit themselves when they encounter a file name with a space in it?
These quotes about X-Windows apply to bash as much as they do to X-Windows:
"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes." -Jamie Zawinski
"Programming X-Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals." -Unknown
But it's funny that you would bring up something as terrible as a shell scripting language like bash to compare to how terrible X-Windows is. Have you ever read through a gnu configure file yourself, or do you just close your eyes and type "./configure"? Who in their right mind would ever write a shell script, when there are so many real scripting languages that don't terribly suck universally available, that don't shit themselves when they encounter a file name with a space in it?
These quotes about X-Windows apply to bash as much as they do to X-Windows:
"Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes." -Jamie Zawinski
"Programming X-Windows is like trying to find the square root of pi using roman numerals." -Unknown
https://medium.com/@donhopkins/the-x-windows-disaster-128d39...