[anon4]

I used to run dwm back when I had a machine with just 256MB RAM. The source code is very clean and if you just want to edit some keybindings or the colourscheme, etc. it's so well structured, it's pretty much like editing a config file. It also compiles in no time at all.

[agumonkey]

I wonder if this was how people felt about C in early days. ASM was the low level frailty, and C the oh-so-clean one-make-away world to create, extend, modify your system.

[Avshalom]

Lispmachines existed in the early days of C, so no probably not.

[agumonkey]

Weren't they pretty much a niche compared to unix systems ?

[Avshalom]

They were a niche at the time but remember, this was the early 70s, so was Unix.