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From: stever@tree.uucp (Steve Rudek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: Forth window system interface
Summary: Wrongo.  Curses is much better than nothing.
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.024907.29864@tree.uucp>
Date: 4 Jan 90 02:49:07 GMT
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In article <8912291429.AA16742@jade.berkeley.edu>, wmb@SUN.COM (Mitch Bradley) writes:
> If all you want is curses, I agree that it's no problem, but it's
> also hardly worth doing anymore (Forth should have had curses 10 years
> ago; now it's moot).  I can't think of too many commercially successful
> applications that still use a curses imaging model.  Buyers have come to
> expect a lot more.
> 
> A text-based program running in a terminal emulator window is not a
> window program.

I've already presented my thoughts on this in a previous posting so I'll
make this real brief.  Curses is better than nothing.  Much better.  With
curses support people could begin writing "silly" Forth applications along
the lines of nethack, emacs, larn, rn.  If we had 4 Forth applications
for Unix which were even half as good as those four we'd witness a heck
of a lot of fresh interest in Forth in this newsgroup.


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