14 Jul
2007
14 Jul
'07
9:49 p.m.
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 21:25 -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:21:50 +0100, you wrote:
[quoting a generic attitude]
"basically everything I write programs for is mainly about I/O..."
It's funny how people always seem to think that, but if you look at what they're really doing, I/O is usually the least of their worries. Programming GUIs is about the only reasonably common I/O-related task that has any sort of complexity. Most everything else is reading or writing streams of bytes; the hard part is what happens between the reading and the writing.
Or for a different slant look at xmonad. (www.xmonad.org)