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: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:38:38 +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.

*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.

						Ross Ridge

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