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[Eric S. Raymond]

Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> >OK.  Then what I guess I'd like is for a maintained equivalent of this
> >to join the core -- the ncurses module you referred to, for choice.
> 
> See the "Whither cursesmodule" thread in the python-dev archives:
> http://www.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-February/003796.html
> 
> One possibility was to blow off backward compatibility; are there any
> systems that only have BSD curses, not SysV curses / ncurses?  Given
> that Pavel Curtis announced he was dropping BSD curses maintainance
> some years ago, I expect even the *BSDs use ncurses these days. 

BSD curses was officially declared dead by its maintainer, Keith
Bostic, in early 1995.  Keith and I conspired to kill it of in favor
of ncurses :-).
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation
should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of
criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so
after a century and a half of trying -- that they must sweep under the
rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the
northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both
Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 -- establishes the repeated,
complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.
        -- Senator Orrin Hatch, in a 1982 Senate Report