who know Thomas E. Dickey?

http://invisible-island.net/
Thomas E. Dickey个人主页,一个写了Xterm程序的hacker,还有如下这么多经典的程序：
add full-screen editing calculator

atac automatic test analysis for C programs

autoconf Patches for GNU autoconf

bcpp beautify C++ programs

byacc Berkeley Yacc

c_count C-language line counter

cdk Curses Development Kit (a library of widgets)

conflict filename conflict-listing

cproto generate C function prototypes and convert function definitions

dbmalloc debugging-malloc

ded directory editor

dialog Script-driven curses widgets

diffstat show statistics from output of diff

flist file manager for VAX/VMS

lynx WWW Browser

luit locale and ISO 2022 support for Unicode terminals

ncurses new curses

tin news reader

vile text editor (vi like emacs)

vttest vt100/vt220/xterm test utility

xterm terminal emulator for X with ANSI color and vt220 enhancements

红色部分是作为引导我找到这个主页的向导，此程序是什么了呢？
Ncurses (new curses) is a freely distributable "clone" of System V Release 4.0 (SVr4) curses. Curses is a pun on the term "cursor optimization". It is a library of functions that manage an application's display on character-cell terminals (e.g., VT100)

就是我们在终端字符下使用菜单！
但是谁又能告诉我这位作者是个什麽样的人了呢？为什麽如此做？

rpm -qa |grep ncurses
rpm -i ncurses
可以得到以些信息！