David Vallner wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> 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.

Ah yes, the always handy, Path Less Annoying. Unfotuantely it only gets
harder to do as we continue to take the low roads. The techonology
stack is getting freightfully thick.

T.