David L. Craddock:Procedural Dungeons of Doom: The Making of Rogue– Chapter3.(Blog)17.Juni 2016,abgerufen am 27.Januar 2026(englisch):„Cursor-addressable terminals presented one downside. Each terminal stored characters differently, so programmers had to rewrite cursor-addressable code on every type of cursor-addressable terminal they used. Tired of revising code every time a new terminal appeared in the lab, [Ken C. R. C.] Arnold wrote a platform-agnostic library of cursor functions that worked on any cursor-addressable terminal. He called his library curses. … When Bill Joy corralled worthy programs and packaged them in BSD UNIX in 1978, curses received a place of honor. By 1980, Rogue had spread from its home on UC Santa Cruz’s computers to other UC campuses, including UC Berkeley. Arnold took to the game right away. ‘People often believe that curses was written for Rogue because most people saw them at the same time. …’“
