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I'd say Ion is the father of modern tiling WMs.
by noj 17y ago
I'd say Ion is the father of modern tiling WMs.
- codemac 17y agoI was about to say... dwm was more like the grandson of modern tiling WMs. Hell, it was fork from dwm author's _own_ project wmii.
- thisrod 17y agoAcme was written in the '80s, and the author of wmii and dwm states it inspired his ideas. Acme was based on Oberon, which Wirth wrote so long ago that he had to build his own hardware to run it on.
- uriel 17y agolarswm predates ion by a few years, and that was inspired by Rob Pike's acme programming environment for Plan 9 ( http://acme.cat-v.org http://acme.cat-v.org ), which was preceded by Help, which in turn was influenced by Oberon.