Re: [DEB-USER] Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:31, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:07:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:57, bob parker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:55, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> > > > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > > > > > > Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > [snip]
> > [snip]
[snip]
> > So I *am* a Luddite after all: a good text interface is just as
> > good as any GUI interface, and a hell of a lot faster.
> >
> > I had pull-down menus, dialog boxes, etc in CP/M, when using
> > TurboPascal.
> >
>
> No kidding! I could completely do without X and GUI for anything but
> programs that have to deal with graphics. A text-based (curses)
> interface is sooo much faster for data entry, etc. And you can
> definitely make them look decent.
>
> Unfortunately, it's damn hard to find curses programs and toolkits these
> days. They exist, but hardly anyone codes that way now. It's all GUI.
>
> And while we're off topic, why does the console emulate VT100 and xterms
> emulate VT102? And can anything be done about it?
Because Unix-types think that DEC went out of business after creating
the VT102, back in, oh, 1980...
Actually, xterm(1) says that it emulates much of the VT220.
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