Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Getch

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[edit] getch

Marked for speedy but isn't a candidate. This is a function in the C standard library, but there doesn't seem to be much to say about it (it returns the next character typed at the keyboard—that's it). Not sure what the consensus is on individual C functions. Nominator abstains from voting. — Gwalla | Talk 29 June 2005 06:08 (UTC)

• getch is absolutely NOT in the C standard library. It is impossible to implement portably because C does not interface with keyboards, it interfaces with I/O streams. Strong delete because we don't need articles about Microsoft-specific functions. — JIP | Talk 29 June 2005 07:24 (UTC)
  • It's hardly microsoft-specific - curses has it. Morwen - Talk 29 June 2005 10:56 (UTC)
  • K&R refer to a getch on p79 of their 2nd edition, but it appears to be a "here's one we made earlier". Anyway it's not in the standard library, and I'd delete it. jamesgibbon 29 June 2005 12:30 (UTC)
• delete this is a technical dictionay entry. no notabilty or impact on the field -Harmil 29 June 2005 12:36 (UTC)
• Delete in agreement with JIP. The existence of other "get character" functions that someone has named the same doesn't make this an encyclopedic topic. Too minor and technical, never of interest to program users, rarely significant to programmers. Barno 29 June 2005 14:09 (UTC)
• Delete for reasons given above
• Delete, WP not a dictionary of anything. -Splash June 29, 2005 21:50 (UTC)
• Delete, same reason. Groeck 29 June 2005 22:17 (UTC)
• Delete but redirect to something like Common C functions. Radiant_>|< June 30, 2005 12:44 (UTC)
• Delete as developercruft; nn. .:.Jareth.:. ^babelfish June 30, 2005 14:42 (UTC)
• Keep! getch is interesting because it is part of the dilemma between blocking (portable) and non-blocking (platform dependant) IO. One could also elaborate on its relation to getc, kbhit etc. And then the whole history with how it was copied from compiler to compiler.. Palestine-info 1 July 2005 02:19 (UTC)
  • Comment: Sounds like that information would be better off added to Input/output. This article, however, doesn't currently address any of that, so it's not a merge situation. — Gwalla | Talk 1 July 2005 17:29 (UTC)

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