Re: Curses alternative for Lisp?

On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:20:33 +0100, Andreas Davour <anteRUN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you have to use FFI it usually means two things. First you've
encountered one of the things that Lisp lack, like a standard socket
library,

Nonsense. You don't need the FFI to work with sockets and it doesn't
get any more "standard" if you do.

or second that you are trying to do things the C way and not the
Lisp way. If during all these years nobody have made any terminal
handling library I'm beginning to think I'm onto case two.

Maybe nobody needed one? Or maybe the people who needed one where
content with using the FFI approach? Or maybe (gasp!) somebody wrote
such a library and dared not to release it as open source so that you
can use it for free?

As it is low-level stuff I guess FFI is the way to go, but I'm
beginning to wonder how lispers do their (G)UI programming anyway.

No Lisper has ever done GUI programming. That's one of the many
things you simply can't do in Lisp.

Edi.

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