From: rridge AT calum DOT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca (Ross Ridge)
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: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 02:10:59 +0000 (UTC)
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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.

<rridge AT calum DOT csclub DOT uwaterloo DOT ca> wrote:
>*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.

Thomas Dickey  <dickey AT saltmine DOT radix DOT net> wrote:
>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.

Non sequitur.  What is it that you "do"?

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

No, whether or not you consider comparision is irrelevent to the poster's
question.

					Ross Ridge


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