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Curses has nothing to do with the unix philosophy, and "terminal application" should not be confused with what is actually characteristic of unix: its IPC and I
by gkya 10y ago
Curses has nothing to do with the unix philosophy, and "terminal application" should not be confused with what is actually characteristic of unix: its IPC and IO model, and its possibilities for composing programmes through those. The fact that you most often utilise these features through a terminal emulator that runs a shell does not mean that curses and the ilk are essential to unix because they happen to draw interfaces in those terminal emulators. Curses it not more or less unixy than any other windowing/UI-widget library.
- cm3 10y agoI don't understand what you're replying to. I didn't say curses==unix. Most terminal based applications use curses, therefore the lack of it limits the pool of applications.