Date: Wed, 13 Nov 91 14:47:50 EST
From: Alan Bawden <Alan@lcs.mit.edu>
To: UNIX-HATERS
Subject: Don't tell me about curses
What this is saying is so brain damaged it brings tears to my eyes. On
the one hand, Unix requires every program to manually generate the
escape sequences necessary to drive the user's terminal, and then on
the other hand Unix makes it hard to send them. It's like going to a
restaurant without a liquor license where you have to bring your own
beer, and then the restaurant gives you a dribble-glass to drink it
from.

Appears on p. 116 of _The Unix Hater's Handbook_,
available for free online at
http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html