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0 pointspaulryanrogers3y ago0 comments

Is it so needless? Perhaps I'm misremembering but the distinction was at least useful in the past as GUIs evolved out of TUIs.

If they had said pointers there would be no confusion.

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Since its wrong, I'd think it's basically needless by definition.

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0 pointspaulryanrogers3y ago0 comments

Is it so needless? Perhaps I'm misremembering but the distinction was at least useful in the past as GUIs evolved out of TUIs.

If they had said pointers there would be no confusion.

Since its wrong, I'd think it's basically needless by definition.

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