Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/03/00:16:04
Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Merlin wrote:
>
> > I guess allegro is ok for a hobbist programmer and for learning, but
> > for
> > people who want to program for a living... It seems as if they are
> > trying to take a shortcut. Like they are not interested in learning
> > anything but the syntax of a programming language or just plain too
> > lazy
> > to actually do it themselves...
>
> Speaking as someone who programs for a living, one of the first things
> you learn is that not only do you not have to reinvent the wheel
> constantly, but you are encouraged not to do it, because it is a waste
> of time and resources.
And the companies money too (and in the end isn't that the most important
thing to a company? Which would explain why they do not want you to try to
reinvent the wheel.)... I know what most company's opinions are and they
are usually based on money, not thier particualar preference on using
libraries when building a program.
> Understanding the fundamentals and how do build an engine (in whatever
> programming enterprise you're doing) from the ground up is without a
> doubt a very important skill,
i aggree.. And what better way to learn than to actually do it?
> but the vast majority of the time that is
> not likely what you will be doing. You will be programming using
> existing libraries, writing functionality that is exportable to other
> engineers, and linking together different libraries that were done by
> different people.
>
Again. I think this is a companies view not _necessarily_ a programmers. I
would like to know whether you would use a library when programming if
companies did want you to program from scratch.. If things were reversed
and companies did not use existing libraries.
> In my opinion, it is _far_ more important to understand the syntax of C
> and how to write portable programs, rather than knowing how to write an
> engine from scratch. Knowing the concepts involved and knowing the
> library or libraries or functionality that you will be using is in
> general far more important.
>
>
I see why you look at it this way... however i still don't like to use it
myself.. Thanks for your opinion anyway though...
Merlin.
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