Looked at the source, it’s so compact, wow.
Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
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Re: Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
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I wish more things were protocols instead of APIs.
Could you explain the difference?
I'm not the most knowledgeable, but a protocol talks to another process through a specific format.
I personally think its more powerful than writing a new process to replace and existing.
My favorite example is an X11 windows manager implementing in about 18 lines of python.
Obviously there's dependencies to talk to the X server, but the power of a protocol comes from any program written in any la gage communicate with existing code.
Re: Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
#23Does someone know a tutorial or something which explains how to get from "tutorial Prolog" to "real project Prolog", because that's not look anything like tutorial Prolog.
Prolog seems interesting, but any time I tried to do anything more than toy examples on my own, I got infinite recursion, unsolvable problems.
Re: Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
#24Looked at the source, it’s so compact, wow.
It looks nothing like the Prolog I've seen before.
I'm quite amazed the author took a declarative language meant for logic and turned it on its head for managing windows as an actual application.
Bravo!
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#25Does someone know a tutorial or something which explains how to get from "tutorial Prolog" to "real project Prolog", because that's not look anything like tutorial Prolog. Prolog seems interesting, but any time I tried to do anything more than toy examples on my own, I got infinite recursion, unsolvable problems.
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#27Does someone know a tutorial or something which explains how to get from "tutorial Prolog" to "real project Prolog", because that's not look anything like tutorial Prolog. Prolog seems interesting, but any time I tried to do anything more than toy examples on my own, I got infinite recursion, unsolvable problems.
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But it sort of is maths.
Re: Plwm – An X11 window manager written in Prolog
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish more things were protocols instead of APIs.
Could you explain the difference?
They're both poorly defined, but what I think GP meant is they want something that you use something like a socket instead of FFI to interface with. You need an extra data description layer for a 'protocol' in this context because you can't rely on something like the C data model and calling convention as a given.
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#29I'm hoping one day someone will write a window-manager service for Wayland that replaces the compositor API with a protocol. To once again enable window managers to be implemented in any language, regardless of it having a Wayland/compositor library.
What? Wayland is a protocol. Not an API.
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