Thomas E. Dickey on NetBSD curses
reddit / BSD

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Daemmerung · 2020-04-18 15:22

I am reading one half of a slapfight, it seems.  Why is this
interesting?

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BumpitySnook · 2020-04-18 19:00

The author is an expert on NetBSD curses describing some of the design
decisions made.  It's interesting if you're interested in the low
level details of things like `curses`.  I don't think it's as useless
as you make it out to be.

The other "half," which this is in response to, is linked at the
beginning of the piece, if you would like that additional context.

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FUZxxl · 2020-04-19 00:25

I mainly recall Thomas Dickey as being a bit of an asshole on
Wikipedia.  He has a very specific view of things and everything that
contradicts this view is removed and scrutinised to an absurd
standard.