Re^2: Charting Modules

I believe you're refering to the Curses library which was definitely created before graphical user interfaces were common. Although I've only just started to search, I've not found a good resource discussing the origin of the name "curses". I suspect it was probably a combination of a playing with the words "cursor" and very likely the amount of frustration, thus "cursing", done when trying to write any sort of "graphical interface" back in those days.

So, while it's definitely not a joke in the strict sense you meant, it easily could be a bit of play on words.

Back when the curses library was all the rage, "graphics" simulated with text characters was a semi-respected medium.

-Scott

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Re^3: Charting Modules by BerntB (Deacon) on Nov 16, 2005 at 10:12 UTC
Thanks for the answer. I am old enought to have written a bit of code with it, just prior to the `form` tag. But not much code, since already the curses lib was stretching my talents for layouts and my aesthetical eye. :-) 'curses' was quite neat to use and if that resulted in cursing, I hope the responsible programmer never used gui libs! (-: And, no, it didn't hurt my eye when my aesthetical eye was stretched, but the viewers' eyes. Should lay off the language jokes when I am on shaky idiomatic ground. :-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Charting Modules by 5mi11er (Deacon) on Nov 16, 2005 at 15:37 UTC
Actually, I'd imagine the cursing was done by the guy(s) writting the curses library or those attempting to do layouts without that library. I've done my share of curses programming myself, and you're right, using the library was actually pretty nice. -Scott	[reply]