From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-10-01T04:49:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How to get a character from keyboard?

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Trans wrote:
> Let's be honest. That's pretty sad. 30 years into the PC revolution and=

> it's now harder to poll a keyboard? Something is terribly wrong.
>=20

I find this to be the same in any area that has problems because of
initial fragmented development or design flaws. You end up getting
sanity layers (like curses) first, and then, when the mess settles,
noone cares enough to do things in a more straightforward way if the
status quo Just Works. Cf. terminal emulators, and my earnest suspicion
is that the whole reason why the convoluted morass that are web services
exists is that putting a computer behind a firewall into the global URL
space is less annoying than having to mess with NAT for everything you
want to listen on a socket for.

David Vallner


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