Discussion:
Removing the ASCII Art
Emil Engler via curl-library
2021-03-30 18:45:42 UTC
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Hello curl-library,
I recently grepped a bit in the curl source code for some OR and logical OR
expressions and found it nearly impossible due to our use of "curl" in ASCII
Art in every source header. I then asked myself if it's even useful to have it
in the first place. Of course it's good to show to which project that file
belongs to but we don't we need ASCII art for this. Also ASCII arts
disadvantages are much bigger than it's advantages which is only to look
kind-of nice and eye-catching.

The major disadvantages are:
* Hard/Complex use of grep
* Hard for people who use screen readers

I therefore suggest to replace the ASCII art in the project with the normal
word they try to represent.

Cheers,
Emil
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Patrick Monnerat via curl-library
2021-04-01 23:09:36 UTC
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I agree that the ASCII art doesn't fill any practical purpose. But I'm
still hesitant to remove it! I think primarily because of two reasons
 - the ASCII art makes the header look nice and unique in some ways,
which makes it "stand out"
 - I feel nostalgic about them since they have been there since day 1
of the curl project's life-time
+1 for keeping it !

I even go further in my own projects:
https://github.com/monnerat/undervest/blob/master/src/milter/main.cpp :-)

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