From: Thomas Dickey <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Text (console) UIs for C/C++ (Linux and DOS)
Date: 30 Jul 2002 10:27:30 GMT
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In comp.os.linux.development.apps Ross Ridge <rridge AT calum DOT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca> wrote:
> Philip Pemberton (philpem AT despammed DOT com) wrote:
>> I was also thinking about Ncurses, but that has the most awful
>> programming interface I've ever seen...

> Martin Stromberg <eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se> wrote:
>> Oh well...

> Thomas Dickey  <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net> wrote:
>>shrug: that sort of comment is too often made by people who don't have
>>anything visible against which their ability to make the comparison
>>may be judged.

> *shrugs*  I don't think it really matters, as far the poster's question
> is concerned, how his ability to make the comparion is judged.  But as an
> early, if unintentional, contributer to Ncurses, and one time maintainer
> of two different curses implementations, I feel I'm qualified to say that
> the curses programming interface is fundamentally not very well designed.

like it, or not, that's what I do, have been doing as long as I've been
evaluating code for use in my development environment.

(if the poster is technically competant, it's his job to prove it before
I'll waste time considering it).

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